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2. Electronic navigational chart - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Nautical chart - Wikipedia

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   The Medieval and Early Modern Nautical Chart: Birth, Evolution and Use, Lisbon-based ERC-funded academic project. They develop and maintain the MEDEA-CHART Database, a sophisticated search engine and aggregator of early nautical charts data. Online version of Chart No.1 with "Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms" used in nautical charts

4. Moving map display - Wikipedia

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   A common example of a moving map display today is the map display on a smart phone or tablet screen, with an app using GPS to determine the device's current position and display it on map data from the device's internal storage or from the Internet in real time. This use of phones and tablets has expanded very rapidly for navigation in car ...

5. Raster Navigational Charts (NOAA) - Wikipedia

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   The charts are stored in BSB format. "[The BSB file format] is a proprietary format of BSB Electronic Charts, LLP (bought by MapTech, Inc.)." [1] Image manipulation tools such as GDAL can read the image information, but there also is georeferenced data in the navigational charts.

6. OpenSeaMap - Wikipedia

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   OpenSeaMap is a software project collecting freely usable nautical information and geospatial data to create a worldwide nautical chart. This chart is available on the OpenSeaMap website, and can also be downloaded for use as an electronic chart for offline applications. [1] The project is part of OpenStreetMap. OpenSeaMap is part of the ...

7. Mercator projection - Wikipedia

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   However, if the map is marked with an accurate and finely spaced latitude scale from which the latitude may be read directly—as is the case for the Mercator 1569 world map (sheets 3, 9, 15) and all subsequent nautical charts—the meridian distance between two latitudes φ 1 and φ 2 is simply

8. Sailing Directions - Wikipedia

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   The oldest sailing directions, dating back to the middle ages, descended directly from the Greek and Roman periplii: in classical times, in the absence of real nautical charts, navigation was carried out using books that described the coast, not necessarily intended for navigation, but more often consisting of reports of previous voyages, or celebrations of the deeds of leaders or rulers.

9. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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   Navigation that follows a rhumb line — that is, all meridians are cut at the same angle. On a nautical chart following the Mercator projection, a loxodromic is represented by a straight line. This type of navigation is useful for not too long distances, as it allows the course to remain steady, [16] but it does not offer the shortest distance.