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Is there a regulatory hurdle here? I know in some places the printers must themselves be properly vetted and approved for the charts to...

Consumables aren't that much - a few pounds per chart for damp-proof paper. Ink costs are negligible on a per chart basis, but are a big...

And I think that POD may be the only commercially viable way forward. The OS moved to that for all but the most popular products long...

And if the lowest point of the deck is still too high, as on the Moody 31? I could use the sugar scoop on my Mk 2, but the Mk 1 doesn't...

I am reminded of a similar situation when James Watt Dock Marina was established at Greenock. As the dock exits into the only ship...

I suspect that the only way that could happen would be to sell the entire chart-making business as a going concern. As @dunedin says...

Basically, the steel of the hull slowly corrodes, and as others have noted, it becomes uneconomic to continue to patch it! There are...

The phrase is "Imray to phase out chart publishing". It is not "Imray to phase out paper charts". To me this suggests that they will...

Only if they find a buyer. And where will you find a buyer with the necessary expertise and capital? If it's uneconomic for Imray, I...

No - it's a separate compilation, not created from the same database as the individual sheets.

Unfortunately, the nature of charts makes this very difficult. First of all, you would need to have all your data reduced to the same...

But the process of ingesting HO data, reformatting it and then doing the cartographic work to produce the added value for their leisure...

Imray don't do surveys... they get the data from the Hydrographic Office. All they are doing is buying the data, looking at it, making...

The costs of chart production is NOT in the printing. That can be outsourced to chart retailers, as UKHO has done for years via Print...

The sketchbooks are all available from Amazon: see, for example...