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A good place to start if you are deciding whether or how to use electronic charts on your boat. Covers chart choices, software choices, and keeping safe.
[Cruising World, March 2002]
Flowchart showing vector charts for computers, vector charts for plotters, and raster charts, together with the appropriate navigation software for each.
[Captn. Jack?s, LLC, Port Ludlow, WA, USA]
Electronic charts can have inaccuracies, but most are created by a navigator′s misuse of them. Calder tells you how to avoid getting bad information from yours.
[Ocean Navigator, September 2002]
Computer or Plotter? A look at how far we′ve come in map technology and what the new PC′s, plotters and electronic charts can do. Daylight-viewable screens, more reliable hardware, recent price reductions on maps. Details of recent improvements from Navionics, C-Map, and Garmin.
[Bluewater Books & Charts, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA]
An e-mail discussion list about electronic aids. Over 150 subscribers.
[SailNet, Charleston, SC, USA]
Brief grab bag of facts and commentary on where to get paper charts, especially cheap charts. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]Note: For additional How-To resources regarding charts, see the separate topic Navigation Skills.
Understanding what goes into (and doesn′t go into) a modern chart can help you keep from being surprised by the many anomalies they contain. 5 pages with photos and diagrams.
[Sail Magazine, August 2002]
How one cruising couple stores and keeps track of their chart collection.
[Bill Dillon and Pat Watt, USA]
Some known errors on published charts, and a general warning. 3 pages with annotated charts.
[Cruising World, August 2000]Many of the charts for the world, other than those areas with heavy commercial traffic, are based on surveys from the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Peter F. Prowant
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