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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• 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)

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