vas
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Well V, you might as well go for this solution, while you're waiting for something larger...
that's the reason I wrote this MM, but couldn't be bothered to find the video again 
so thanks.
Are paper charts still necessary and relevant?
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that's the reason I wrote this MM, but couldn't be bothered to find the video again so thanks.
hlb
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Sorry, got no scanner. Don't need a chart for Weymouth, it's just inside that sticky out bit, with the tower thingy on the end.
Scillies, just go right, then left a bit and stick to the wet bits. If the seagulls are standing up, it's best not to go there.
MapisM
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Doh! And I thought that we couldn't have had any better proof that paper charts are unnecessary, after tcm told us that he made it rtw without them...
MYStargazer
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Stop press!!
"NOAA announces end of traditional paper nautical charts"
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20131022_nauticalcharts.html
"NOAA announces end of traditional paper nautical charts"
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20131022_nauticalcharts.html
Tender_aft
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Ah I see that they are just not printing and selling them except to order. That way when someone buys a Print-on-Demand chart, it is up to date at time of printing. That's better
MYStargazer
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Or, looked at another way, electronic charts are the primary source - you can look at them on your screen or they can print them out for you if you want.
oceanfroggie
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Yes paper is dead, but don't say so on scuttlebutt or all hell will break loose with the old blazers.
oGaryo
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bloody hell, I was right for once!!!!!!! lols
Tender_aft
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bloody hell, I was right for once!!!!!!! lols
So you didn't read the article clearly then? Read what it says under the image (if it's true)
oGaryo
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So you didn't read the article clearly then? Read what it says under the image (if it's true)
FFS another bubble burst
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Deleted User YDKXO
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No, its not dead, far from it in fact. The NOAA is responsible for the USA and as such they have control over the data that is depicted on their charts and control over how that data is collected. In addition, the NOAA have control over their electronic charts so they can ensure insofar as it is possible that no data is lost transferring that data from paper charts to their electronic charts. In Europe, the situation is very different as we have many different national hydrographic organisations, the quality of whose data varies. On top of that we have 3 commercial electronic charting companies whose primary motive is profit and who may not be as rigorous as the NOAA about the quality of the data presented on their electronic charts.
The crucial question is this. Can you trust an electronic chart to provide as much information as you would find on a paper chart? The answer in the USA seems to be yes but in Europe, as far as I'm concerned, the answer is very much no. I've seen too many anomalies on electronic charts in Europe to trust them entirely and I will certainly continue to carry paper charts to provide an additional source of information. For those of you who say that paper charts are dead, don't come back on this forum in the furure moaning about the fact that you've bashed your boat into a rock that wasn't shown on your electronic chart