NYCkayaker Never buy another US chart

[Lyn Goldsmith]

Just have to share.

Most of you know you can get free US raster charts online from NOAA.
http://chartmaker.noaa.gov/mcd/Raster/download.htm

But the charts aren't very usable or printable, they're just good for
looking at online.

A paddler in Victoria, BC wrote software to convert these raster charts into
a chartbook form. It's very reasonably priced ($30) and the end result is a
chart book that prints out looking exactly like the expensive paper
chartbooks.  With waterproof paper and a cheap binding system you can make
your own waterproof charts easily and for a fraction of the cost of
commercially available charts.   He also wrote a program that allows you to
Photoshop the charts ($20).  This allows you to determine which sections of
the chart you want to print, and you can write in comments, etc.

The guy who wrote the program, Sean, is very responsive to email questions.

I have no financial interest in this, but decided to try it after spending 5
hours copying large charts designed to be used on a yacht to a book format
for last year's paddle. This is really fantastic software!!

http://www.apocgraphy.com/default.htm

Lyn
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