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June 10, 2008

My new favorite web site

As I am sure you all know, more than 70% of the Earth’s surface is water. When you use Google Earth or maps, there is no detail. It’s a big uniform blue mass.

Some guy in France has mashed up NOAA’s charts with Google maps to create a detailed map of the sea.

 http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/

Map

 
It's a little buggy but my personal productivity just took a serious nosedive.

Big thanks to H20- Bonehead Moves on the Water for finding it.

Posted by on June 10, 2008 at 12:00 PM in Misc |

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tillerman

That is so cool.

Posted by: tillerman | June 10, 2008 at 01:55 PM

Joe Rouse

I also saw it over at Craig's, it is very cool. You can also go to the NOAA site to download charts:
http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/ChartServerV2.0/jsp/index.jsp?type=BSB

or at xpda.com for .png files:
http://xpda.com/nauticalcharts/

Posted by: Joe Rouse | June 13, 2008 at 11:39 AM

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