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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 13:38, 3 June 2009: 1,239 × 1,493 (245 KB): Monty14 {{Information |Description={{en|1=A map of Africa showing the route that the Seacom subsea cable system will take on the east and south coast of Africa.}} |Source=Seacom HQ c/o Linda Carter (www.seacom.mu) |Author=Seacom HQ, c/o Linda Carter |Date=2 March
For the small areas depicted on such maps, the differences between projections are of no practical importance. [ 30 ] Admiralty charts are issued by the UKHO for a variety of users; Standard Nautical Charts (SNCs) are issued to mariners subject to the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) convention , while chart folios, at a convenient A2 size, are ...
An Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) is a digital representation of a real-world geographical area for the purpose of Marine navigation.Real-world objects and areas of navigational significance, or to a lesser degree - informational significance, are portrayed through Raster facsimiles of traditional paper charts; or more commonly through vector images, which are able to scale their relative ...
A 1976 United States NOAA chart of part of Puerto Rico A nautical chart of the Warnemünde harbor shown on OpenSeaMap. A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks.
Kingfisher Information Service — at KISCA.org.uk, source of free maps of cable routes around the United Kingdom; France Telecom's fishermen's/submarine cable information — at SigCables.com; Oregon Fisherman's Cable Committee — at OFCC.com; SAT3 WASC SAFE undersea cable — at Safe-Sat3.co.za
A group of boaters and programmers decided to extend the coverage of OpenStreetMap to the seas and fresh water bodies. From the start the project has been worldwide and multilingual. By the end of 2009, the design and architecture of the project had been created, and a sample harbor " Warnemünde " was created to serve as an example chart.
The Americas Region Caribbean Ring System (ARCOS-1) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable of 8,400 kilometers that extends between the United States, the Bahamas, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Curaçao, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.
A cable fairing is a structure attached to a towed cable designed to streamline the flow around the cable, primarily in marine environments.. Cables are faired primarily for two reasons: (1) to reduce normal drag and thus achieve more depth for a given cable scope and speed; and (2) to eliminate cable vibration caused by vortex shedding, commonly known as cable strum.