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Locate, view, and download various types of NOAA nautical charts and publications. ENC Viewer - A seamless display of all NOAA electronic navigational charts using ECDIS symbology. View Nautical Charts - Visit the Dates of Latest Editions list to view individual raster charts.
Provide up-to-date navigation information to mariners. These paper charts are updated on a weekly basis and include all of the latest critical chart corrections. Order POD charts from OceanGrafix or East View Geospatial. Used to find specific named locations (ie. "Boston Harbor", "Monterey Bay", etc.)
Specifically tailored to the needs of marine navigation, nautical charts delineate the shoreline and display important navigational information, such as water depths, prominent topographic features and landmarks, and aids to navigation.
Get NOAA nautical charts and publications online at the map-based interactive chart locator. NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey is the nation’s chartmaker, with over a thousand charts covering 95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.4 million square nautical miles of waters within the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.
After a three-month trial period, PDF versions of NOAA nautical charts will become a permanent product, free to the public. The free PDFs, which are digital images of traditional nautical charts, are especially valued by recreational boaters who use them to plan sailing routes and fishing trips.
The free PDF charts are one product in NOAA’s suite of easy-to-access navigational products and services, which also includes print-on-demand paper charts, electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC ®), and raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC ®).
NOAA ENCs help provide real-time ship positioning, as well as collision and grounding avoidance. Each ENC, also known as a cell, is a digital database that stores the location and shape of charted features as pairs of latitude and longitude coordinates.