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OpenNauticalChart offers free seacharts for everybody. This charts are usable (offline) with several ship-plotters and Navigation-equipement on board. Browse 3,239 incredible Nautical vectors, icons, clipart graphics, and backgrounds for royalty-free download from the creative contributors at Vecteezy!
- Download Nautical Charts & Maps and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Main Features Include: + NOAA Raster Nautical Charts (RNC) + NOAA Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) + NOAA Weather Map Overlays + Trawl & Non-trawl RCA fishing overlays (West Coast) - RASTER NAUTICAL CHARTS - NOAA RNC charts are full-color, geo-referenced.
- Digital Nautical Chart ( DNC ®) The Digital Nautical Chart (DNC) is produced by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and is a vector-based digital product containing maritime significant features essential for safe marine navigation. DNC, for areas in which the US is the prime charting authority, is unclassified.
- They supplement the charts and are available from official NOAA chart agents or click here to download them for free. Official Chart No. 1, Nautical Chart Symbols – Of course it helps if you know how to interpret all the symbols on nautical charts! This reference publication depicts basic chart elements and explains nautical chart symbols.
on Garmin GPSmap 7015
on Garmin GPSmap 526
OpenSeaMap works on chartplotters and on most handhelds made by Garmin.
Newest OpenSeaMap charts also work on chartplotters with most recent firmware.
Download
Use the following link to download newest generation OpenSeaMap of Europe. It works on chartplotters even with recent firmware:
Charts of other regions can be created on demand within a few minutes. Please use the following service:
Source: http://forum.openseamap.org/viewtopic.php?id=1833 and http://forum.openseamap.org/viewtopic.php?id=2143
Coverage
Coverage is worldwide.
Characteristics of the map
When zooming in, you can see buildings.
When zooming out, the streets disappear and you will see an overview map of rivers and water surfaces.
Garmin GPSMap 526 Piloting chart | Garmin GPSMap 526 Harbour plan | Garmin GPSMap 526 Overview map |
Tips & Tricks
- Older devices may only support maps up to 2 GB.
Device list
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OpenSeaMap works on the following Garmin devices:
= tested successfully
All these devices should work for OpenSeaMap, also all the hand-helds and chart plotters in this list:
| ok | Type | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Echomap 50 dv | Plotter with integrated Fishfinder | |
| Echomap 50 s | Plotter with integrated Fishfinder | |
| GPSmap 7015 | ||
| GPSmap 7012 | ||
| GPSmap 6012 | ||
| GPSmap 6008 | ||
| GPSmap 6012 | ||
| GPSmap 6008 | ||
| GPSmap 5015 | ||
| GPSmap 5012 | ||
| GPSmap 5008 | ||
| GPSmap 4012 | ||
| GPSmap 4010 | ||
| GPSmap 4008 | ||
| GPSmap 720 / 720s | Touch screen | |
| GPSmap 620 | Portable two-in-one touch screen device for street and marine applications | |
| GPSmap 531 / 531s | ||
| GPSmap 527 | ||
| GPSmap 526 / 526s | ||
| GPSmap 521 / 521s | ||
| GPSmap 421 / 421s | ||
| GPSmap 172C | No longer available | |
| GPSmap 60 cx | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 60 CSx | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 62 s | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 62 sc | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 62 st | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 62 stc | Outdoor | |
| GPSmap 64 s | Outdoor | |
| Colorado | No longer available | |
| Dacota 20 | Outdoor | |
| eTrex 10 | Outdoor, by Mapsource + Multistorage (only 12MB) | |
| eTrex 20 | Outdoor | |
| eTrex 30 | Outdoor | |
| eTrex Legend HCx | Outdoor | |
| eTrex Venture HC | Outdoor, by Mapsource | |
| eTrex Vista HCx | Outdoor | |
| Montana 600 | Outdoor | |
| Montana 650 | Outdoor | |
| Montana 650 t | Outdoor | |
| Oregon 550 | Outdoor | |
| Oregon 450 | Outdoor with marine mode |
Technical background
Over time, the various Garmin devices for car, outdoor and marine applications have evolved in different directions.
New maps are only compatible with the device for the respective target group. NT maps with lane assist guides and traffic informationonly work on Garmin nüvi devices, whereas the very detailed and colourful topographic maps are meant for use in outdoor devices. However, Bluechart G2 Vision only works in combinationwith marine devices. All sea maps, either traditional Bluechart, G2 or G2 Vision, work without TYPE files, as these do not display particularly detailed or multi-coloured images on shore. The Bluechart version does not offer green meadows, brown fields or even tree symbols in a forest. However, outdoor devices were designed to be used in a car or on a boat as well. For this reason, a partial support for NT and Bluechart (G2) was implemented. Unfortunately, they did not implement lane assist guides or Bluechart Vision.
So far, Garmin marine devices do not support TYPE files (for freely definable symbols, colours and textures). In order to display polygons, only a few clearly defined colours and textures are available. Without TYPE files, however, the priority of polygons cannot be defined. Maps that are displayed perfectly on Garmin outdoor or travel devices generally do have the same quality on marine devices and are therefore unusable.
Garmin has built in a locking mechanism in newer marine devices to prevent older Bluecharts (without G2) from being used (Message: 'Karte nicht kompatibel' [Map is not compatible]). This lock also takes effect when OSM cards are involved.
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Thus, a special OpenSeaMap chart was developed for owners of Garmin marine devices. It is particularly designed to adapt to the options of marine devices, which are rather limited compared to those of outdoor devices. This chart also works on outdoor devices with marine mode (e. g. Oregon) without any restrictions. It should also work for older marine devices. However, you should not download the entire map of Europa to less powerful devices in one go, but choose MapSource sections instead. Otherwise the image buildup will be very slow and there can be gaps in the map if the working memory is too small.
On devices that are exclusively used in cars (nüvi series) the map will probably not work without restrictions. Devices for aviation have not been tested so far.px
Nearly 2.3 million charts were downloaded within 90 days of the October 2013 beta release of NOAA’s free PDF nautical charts, which provide up-to-date navigation information in this universally available file type.
“To us, that represented more than two million opportunities to avoid an accident at sea,” says Rear Admiral Gerd Glang, director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. “Up-to-date charts help boaters avoid groundings and other dangers to navigation, so our aim is to get charts into the hands of as many boaters as we can.”
The free PDF charts are one product in NOAA’s suite of easy-to-access navigational products and services, which also includes print-on-demand paper charts, electronic navigational charts (NOAA ENC®), and raster navigational charts (NOAA RNC®).
With the end of bulk-printed paper charts, advancements in computing and mobile technologies make it possible for NOAA to deliver accurate nautical charts in the format that works best for boaters, fishing vessels, and commercial mariners.
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Not sure which one you need? Check out NOAA’s interactive chart locator, where boaters can select a chart from a map of the U.S. and choose their format.
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It’s important to know that printing PDFs may alter a chart’s scale, color, or legibility. Ships that are required to carry a navigational chart 'published by the National Ocean Service' should obtain printed charts from NOAA-certified Print-on-Demand (POD) providers.