Support for Introduction to Electronic Chart Navigation
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Note 1. To quote from Section 2.9 on Lights
What we forgot to add to the book is the defintion of nighttime. We find this in S-57, Section 12.8.5.1 Night lights are lights that are normally exhibited from about sunset to about sunrise, they are encoded with EXCLIT = 4 (night light). Note 2. In passing we recommended downloading NOAA's US Chart No.1 to your phone, but that is not quite so transparent an operation without practice, and it is browser dependent. The problem is the pdf opens up in the browser and not all mobile devices have a way to save it. One solution is download it on a computer and then mail it to yourself and the mail program will do the interfacing for you—that is, it will ask how you want to open the attachment. Then choose to open in Kindle or Apple Books. (If you do not have one of those readers, they are all free downloads.) These readers then store it in their resprective libraries, and then you can make your own organized bookmarks and annotations, and it is easy to get to. There are no bookmarks in the original. The graphic index is the last page. With Apple products, Air drop is often an effective way to move files to a mobile device. Note 3. We have an article online with links to Free ENC Viewers that can be used to read these charts and learn about them. Note 4. Here are a couple packages of echarts for practice. Each set includes both RNC and ENC.
Note 5. New online course devoted to ENC that uses this book as the text: Electronic Chart Navigation |
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Internet links referenced in the book that we keep up to date here. If you find a link that does not work, please send notice to [email protected]. 2. IHO ENC and ECDIS Standards in Force 3. IHO Catalog of International ENC... see also starpath.com/getcharts 13. Reserved 14. Air gap system for live air draft 15. Value of NOAA PORTS services 16. Accuracy of NOAA chart data 17. Starpath Pocket Navigation Rules Handbook 18. World Magnetic Model and geomag software 20. U.S. Coast Pilot 21. Bowditch, American Practical Navigator, NGA Pub. 9 24. High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model and others described at LuckGrib.com 25. Grib files for meteorology and oceanography (Saildocs) 26. Download NOAA Charts and access Online ENC Viewer... see also starpath.com/getcharts 28. Free Inland ENCs 29. NOAA Custom Chart descriptions and app links 30. Printing NOAA Custom Charts (NCC) 31. NOAA Rescheming Program with links to program status 32. Implementing the National Charting Plan
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