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NOAA has already started to cancel individual charts and will shut down all production and maintenance of traditional paper nautical charts and the associated raster chart products and services by January The U.

Government no longer prints paper copies of its raster nautical charts. Certified chart agents ensure that the charts are printed at the proper scale and quality to meet U. No other raster chart format meets USCG carriage requirements.

Some NOAA certified chart agents offer additional premium services, such as printing charts on waterproof materials, and printing user overlays on charts. Booklet charts are reduced scale copies of NOAA paper nautical charts divided into a set of a dozen 8. The image at left shows the index of the 12 chart pages of booklet chart of Cape Cod Bay. The extent of each page extends past the boundaries shown in the index, so that the coverage of each page overlaps a bit with adjacent pages.

These pages can be printed at home double-sided or affixed back-to-back and assembled into a booklet. Other pages in the booklet include excerpts from the U. Emergency information for the charted area is printed on the back cover. Read more. Availability is dependent on permissions granted by contributing nations worldwide. Raster Charts are priced per chart. Prices vary depending on the area and scale required. Please contact us directly if your needs are more complex or you need help in choosing your product or provider.

Do you require a global Raster Chart dataset? Do you have a project or ongoing requirement and are not sure what you need? See our Data Buying Guide or contact us and we can help advise the best product for your requirement. Want to try it out first? Please see all our mapping products on our demo site or request sample data. Do you want better land mapping?

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