[Erland] figured it was high time for digital maps to go nautical and built a tablet-like device to display charts while sailing. The Pi Chart is, of course, powered by a Raspberry Pi running a ...

From dots and dashes on cave walls to maps of ocean tides and then the earliest graphs, see how we’ve been visualising data ...

In 1944 its 1,100 workers produced a "staggering" seven million nautical charts that showed ... to be one of the final views of a purpose-built chart factory before it was demolished They were ...

But if numbers inform — and sometimes misinform — think about maps. A map or nautical chart is a picture. It’s a visual medium that conveys lots of seemingly factual information at a glance.

Jerry Brotton hails from northern England, and in “Four Points of the Compass,” he notes that the caricatures associated with ...

The Sri Lanka National Hydrographic Office (SLNHO) published a new Electronic Navigation Chart (ENC) of the Galle Harbour, at the SLNHO on 31 Oct. This is the first ENC produced by the SLNHO since its ...

To acquire sample images of chart symbols, scanned images of paper nautical charts were used which referred as RNCs. These data were obtained from a variety of sources including existing paper charts ...

Through the cooperation between the Saudi Red Sea Authority (SRSA) and the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA), the first high-precision nautical chart, in both paper and ...

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, a French geographer, created highly accurate world maps and nautical charts during this period. His ...

Milbros UV Graphs have been developed to work with a spectrophotometer, a machine now being installed on ships that accepts a ...

The survey uses multi-beam echosounders mounted on the boat that slowly criss-cross an area to build detailed 3D images of the seafloor. 3D pictures show up things on the seafloor such as shipwrecks ...

The Saudi Red Sea Authority (SRSA) and the General Authority for Survey and Geospatial Information (GEOSA) have collaborated ...