US NOAA update in the Marine GeoGarage

18640 San Franciso to Punto Arena

14 charts have been updated in the Marine GeoGarage

(NOAA update mi-May 2013-1st week of June 2013)

NOAA Charts Show New IMO Traffic Separation Scheme off California
NOAA has updated a series of raster and electronic navigational charts to comply with routing regulations approved late last year by the International Maritime Organization (IMO COLREG.2/Circ.64,December 4, 2012).
The routing establishes a new traffic separation scheme off the northern coast of California, effective June 1

see GeoGarage blog : California shipping lanes moved in attempt to avoid killing whales

• 11324 Galveston Bay Entrance Galveston and Texas City Harbors
• 11356 Isles Dernieres to Point au Fer
• 11428 Okeechobee Waterway St. Lucie Inlet to Fort Myers; Lake Okeechobee
• 11542 Florida Keys Sombrero Key to Sand Key
• 12326 Approaches to New York Fire lsland Light to Sea Girt
• 12332 Raritan River Raritan Bay to New Brunswick
• 12368 North Shore of Long Island Sound Sherwood Point to Stamford Harbor
• 13223 Narragansett Bay. Including Newport Harbor
• 13287 Saco Bay and Vicinity
• 13298 Kennebec River Bath to Courthouse Point
• 18649 Entrance to San Francisco Bay
• 18724 Port Hueneme And Approaches;Port Hueneme
• 18725 Port Hueneme to Santa Barbara;Santa Barbara;Channel Islands Harbor and Port Hueneme;Ventura
• 18746 San Pedro Channel;Dana Point Harbor

Today 1024 NOAA raster charts (2166 including sub-charts) are included in the Marine GeoGarage viewer.


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Note : NOAA updates their nautical charts with corrections published in:

• U.S. Coast Guard Local Notices to Mariners (LNMs),
• National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Notices to Mariners (NMs), and
• Canadian Coast Guard Notices to Mariners (CNMs)

While information provided by this Web site is intended to provide updated nautical charts, it must not be used as a substitute for the United States Coast Guard, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, or Canadian Coast Guard Notice to Mariner publications

Please visit the NOAA's chart update service for more info.

 

 

1849 Imray nautical map of California Coast

"This wa probably the best chart of the West Coast avaolable in 1849"

see Geographicus