12/16/2015
By David Burch, Starpath Navigation
We have been working on using Google Earth (GE) for practice with echart navigation, which led to a couple short videos on the process listed at the end here. In this process we discovered a remarkable NOAA service that I am embarrassed to say that I did not know about till now. I am not sure how long it has been online, but it is there now and works great. It is part of their new products on seamless display, that we discuss more at the end here. The GE feature of that program is the subject at hand.
With this easy to use utility you can see at a glance all 2100 NOAA charts outlined on the GE world map, with the ability to actually view the individual charts, with or without a border, as well as a very quick way to download the RNC echart of any one of them.
The process is explained on a page of the NOAA site called Seamless Raster Nav ...