A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks. Depending on the scale of...

Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...

navigator is in charge of maintaining the aircraft or ship's nautical charts, nautical publications, and navigational equipment, and they generally have...

surround) for a specific purpose are often known as charts, such as a nautical chart or aeronautical chart, typically spread over several map sheets. Other...

the color pattern of the compass rose found on many nautical charts. Insignia including nautical stars: United States Coast Guard officer rank insignia...

system. As a result, nautical miles and knots are convenient units to use when navigating an aircraft or ship. On a standard nautical chart using Mercator projection...

A chart datum is the water level surface serving as origin of depths displayed on a nautical chart and for reporting and predicting tide heights. A chart...

Look up charting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Charting may refer to: Chart, graphical representation of data Nautical chart, process of building...

monuments. It is particularly common in navigation systems, including nautical charts, non-directional beacons (NDB), VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) systems...

Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Cambridge University Press. p. 37. Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland. Jeppe...

reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart or aeronautical chart to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel or aircraft...

mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime...

The Nautical Chart Department (Swedish: Sjökarteverket) is a building located on the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden. Built in 1871-1872...

This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...

map, nautical chart, engineering drawing, or architectural drawing. A scale bar is common element of map layouts. On large scale maps and charts, those...

This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...

rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th century. After 1492,...

Admiralty charts are nautical charts issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and subject to Crown Copyright. Over 3,500 Standard Nautical Charts...

where wild birds reign supreme". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2020. "Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland" (PDF)...

worldwide. Hydrographic/nautical chart – Topographic map of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans – Publicly...

An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers...

useful for the navigator because this information can be used on the nautical chart together with simple geometrical techniques to aid in determining the...

Transverse Mercator List of map projections Mercator 1569 world map Nautical chart Omission of New Zealand from maps – often believed to be caused by the...

A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined...

be located on the bridge or in a separate chart room, nearby. It includes a table sized for nautical charts where calculations of course and location...

alternative to paper nautical charts for navigation by ships. IMO refers to similar systems not meeting the regulations as Electronic Chart Systems (ECSs)....

The least charted depth is 9 m (30 ft) above the reef. This sounding was one of only a few that were ever incorporated into US nautical charts, having been...

tide chart is not available, most nautical charts have "tidal diamonds" which relate specific points on the chart to a table giving tidal flow direction...

signed Portuguese nautical chart. 1492: Cartographer Jorge de Aguiar made the oldest known signed and dated Portuguese nautical chart. 1537: Much of Portuguese...

Hydrographic officers who produce of nautical publications also provide a system to inform mariners of changes that effect the chart. In the US and the UK, corrections...