What about the source of the maps displayed in the different charts layers ?
"A nautical chart is much more than an indispensable instrument for getting from one place to another;
it is an engraving, a page of history, at times a novel of adventure." Jacques Dupuet
The website has been derived in part from material obtained from different national Hydrographic Services (HS) with their official agreement :
- NOAA (USA) : Raster Navigational Charts (RNC) ® from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- LINZ (New Zealand) : our website contains data sourced from Land Information New Zealand. Land Information New Zealand gives no warranty in relation to the data (including accuracy, reliability, completeness or suitability) and accepts no liability (including, without limitation, liability in negligence) for any loss, damage or costs relating to any use of the data. © Crown Copyright Reserved.
- Serviço Hidrogràfico Brasileiro (Brazil) : Marinha do Brasil, Copyright © Diretoria de Hidrografia E Navegaçao (DHN is not responsible for this use of their data)
- UK Hydrographic Office : the displayed images from the 'UK & misc.' layer have been derivated in part from material obtained from the UK Hydrographic Office with the permission of the UK Hydrographic Office (Agreement GB BV-001), Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the following authorities : (UK AR BE SP HR IC MT NL MU SF PT)
Argentina : Servicio de Hidrografia Naval (SHN)
Belgium : Vlaamse Hydrografie
Spain : Instituto Hidrogràfico de la Marina (IHM)
Croatia : Hvratski Hidrografski Institute (HHI)
Iceland : Hydrographic Department of the Icelandic Coast Guard
Nederlands : Netherlands Hydrographic Office (NLHO / Dienst Der Hydrografie)
Oman : National Hydrographic Office, Sultanante of Oman (NHOSO)
South Africa : South Africa Navy Hydrographic Office (SANHO)
Portugal : Instituto Hidrogràfico of Portugal (IHPT)
and other organisations as listed herein : the third parties list below have granted their permission to the UKHO to grant licences on their behalf to reproduce, adapt and/or translate their intellectual property where it has been incorporated within the UKHO's material.
Some of the listed third parties have not granted permission for all their intellectual property to be reproduced, adapted and/or translated. These third parties (custodianship organizations), and the limitations, are shown below :
United Kingdom
Aberdeean Harhour Board
Argyll & Bute Council
Associated British Ports ‑ Ayr & Troon
Associated British Ports ‑ Barrow
Associated British Ports ‑ Cardiff & Barry
Associated British Ports ‑ Fleetwood
Associated British Ports ‑ Garston
Associated British Ports ‑ Humber
Associated British Ports ‑ Ipswich
Associated British Ports ‑ King's Lynn
Associated British Ports ‑ Lowestoft
Associated British Ports ‑ Newport
Associated British Ports ‑ Plymouth
Associated British Ports ‑ Silloth
Associated British Ports ‑ Southampton
Associated British Ports ‑ Swansea & Port Talbot
Associated British Ports ‑ Teignmouth
Belfast Harbour Commissioners
Blyth Harbour Commission
Cattewater Harbour Commissioners (Cattewater, Plymouth)
Chichester Harbour Conservancy
Clydeport Operations Limited
Corporation of Trinity House
Cowes Harbour Commission
Cromarty Firth Port Authority
Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority
Dover Harbour Board
Falmouth Harbour Commissioners
First Corporate Shipping Limited (Bristol)
Folkestone Harbour Company (Fokestone)
Forth Ports plc
Fowey Harbour Commissioners
Fraserburgh Harbour Commissioners
Gloucester Harbour Trustees
Great Yarmouth Port Authority (Great Yarmouth)
Hampshire County Council (Hamble, River Hamble)
Harwich Haven Authority
Heysham Port Limited
lmerys Minerals Ltd (Par)
Inverness Harbour Trust (Inverness, Inverness Firth)
King's Lynn Conservancy Board
Langstone Harbour
Lame Harbour Limited
Lerwick Port Authority
Littlehampton Harbour Board
Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners
Lymington Harbour Commissioners
Manchester Ship Canal Company
Mersey Docks & Harbour Company (Mersey, Liverpool, Birkenhead)
Milford Haven Port Authority
Montrose Port Authority
Newhaven Port and Properties Limited
Northern Lighthouse Board
Orkney Islands Council
Padstow Harbour Commissioners
PD Teesport
Peel Ports Medway (Port of Sheerness Ltd)
Peterhead Port Authority (Peterhead Bay, Peterhead Harbour)
Poole Harbour Commissioners
Port of Boston Limited
Port of Cairnryan Limited
Port of London Authority
Port of Sunderland
Port of Tyne Authority (Tyne)
Port of Wisbech Authority
Port of Workington
Portland Harbour Authority Limited
Ports of Truro & Penryn
Portsmouth Commercial Port
Salcombe Harbour
Seaham Harbour Dock Company
Scrabster Harbour Trust (Scrabster)
Shetland Islands Council
Shoreham Port Authority
Stena Line Ports Limited (Fishguard, Fleetwood, Holyhead, Stranraer)
Teignmouth Harbour Commission
Thanet District Council (Ramsgate)
Torbay Council Marine Services (Tor Bay; Torquay, Brixham, Paiqnton)
Ullapool Harbour Trustees
Warrenpoint Harbour Authority
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council
Whitstable Harbour
Channel Islands
Jersey Harbours
States of Guernsey Harbour Authority
Isle of Man
Isle of Man Harbours Division
Republic of Ireland
Bantry Bay Harbour Commissioners
Commissioner of Irish Lights
Drogheda Port Company
Dublin Port Company
Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company
Galway Harbour Company
Kinsale Harbour Commissioners (Kinsale)
Port of Cork Company
Port of New Ross
Port of Waterford Company (Waterford)
Shannon Foynes Port Company (River Shannon, Limerick, Foynes)
Other data providers
UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (bathymetry data only)
Civil Aviation Authority (PE)(A data only)
NOTICE : The UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and its licensors make no warranties or representations, express or implied, with respect to this product.
The UKHO and its licensors have not verified the information within our product or quality assured it.
© British Crown Copyright, 2010
Mariners should keep UKHO nautical charts up-to-date by consulting the Notices to Mariners.
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SHN (Servicio de Hidrografía Naval de Argentina) gave its agreement to display their nautical raster charts (a set of 90 charts) in the Marine GeoGarage.
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As a Marine GeoGarage user, you hereby acknowledge that these charts issued from BSB charts material are only AN AID TO NAVIGATION, so they DO NOT REPLACE OFFICIAL AND UPDATED PAPER CHARTS since they are RASTER BSB Electronic charts.
Mariners should keep nautical charts up-to-date by consulting the Notices to Mariners which are monthly edited :
Monthly Bulletin
Radio Warnings
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CHS (Canadian Hydrographic Service) gave its agreement to display their nautical raster charts (a set of 768 charts, 1618 charts including sub-charts) in the Marine GeoGarage.
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This web application has been produced by MAGIC INSTINCT Software based on Canadian Hydrographic Service ("CHS") data, following any minimum standards/guidelines that may been established by CHS, pursuant to CHS Digital VAR Agreement N° 2010-0331-1260-M.
The incorporation of data sourced from CHS in this product shall not be construed as constituting an endorsement by CHS of this product.
This product does not meet the requirements of the Charts and Nautical Publications Regulations under the Canada Shipping Act.
Certified charts and publications, corrected and up-to-date, must be used to meet the requirements of those regulations.
Mariners should keep nautical charts up-to-date by consulting the Notices to Mariners which are monthly edited :
Monthly Bulletin
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AHS (Australian Hydrographic Service) gave its agreement (license no 2829SL) to display their nautical raster charts (a set of 437 charts -725 including sub-charts-) in the Marine GeoGarage.
Some charts (21 charts originally in Clarke 1858 datum) have not been included in the Marine GeoGarage because no rigourous transformation between Clarke 1858 to WGS84 datum is possible.
Note : other charts (for example 38 charts in Australian Geodetic 1966 datum) have been transformed to match Google Maps viewer datum.
So Marine GeoGarage is able right now to display 3411 charts coming from 7 international Hydrographic Services.
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Certain material in this product is reproduced under license by permission of The Australian Hydrographic Service.
©Commonwealth of Australia 2010. All rights reserved.
This information may not be copied, reproduced, translated, or reduced to any medium or machine readable form, in whole or part, without the prior written consent of the Australian Hydrographic Service.
Mariners should keep Australian nautical charts up-to-date by consulting the Notices to Mariners.
- Wavey Line Publishing gave its agreement to display and sell some iPhone/iPad application for Bahamas based on its raster chart material
Copyright © 2010 Wavey Line Ltd.
P.O. Box 101, Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands, British West Indies
- GEBCO Digital Atlas from the British Oceanographic Centre (BODC) : the imagery (bathymetric contours) are produced on the fly from the GEBCO_08 Grid (version 20090202, 30 seconds) stored on our GeoGarage server (button 'Physical').
- NLHO (Netherlands Hydrographic Office) : 1800-series charts from Netherlands layer are reproduced with the permission of the NLHO.
The data may not be used for navigational pruposes. The Netherlands Hydrographic Office reserves the right to exercise its moral duty (section 6bis Convention of Bern) on the reproduced materials containing the processed data.
Any form of copying, duplicating or supplying the data to others -without prior written consent of the NLHO- is strictly forbidden.$
- BSH (Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie) : charts from Germany layer are reproduced with the permission of the BSH.
The data may not be used for navigational pruposes. The Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency reserves the right to exercise its moral duty (section 6bis Convention of Bern) on the reproduced materials containing the processed data.
Any form of copying, duplicating or supplying the data to others -without prior written consent of the BSH- is strictly forbidden.
Today, 1956 charts (3613 including sub-charts) are freely displayed on the Marine GeoGarage.
And with a 'Premium chart' subscription (9.9 € / month) a total of 4168 charts (7797 including sub-charts).
The catalog is expanding : additional nautical maps sources are in preparation.
WARNINGS :
- No national hydrographic office (HO), State Authority, and their licensors have verified the information in this product or quality assured it, and none accept liability for the accuracy of reproduction or any modifications made thereafter. No national hydrographic office and their licensors makes any warranties or representations, express or implied, with respect to this product. No national hydrographic office warrants that the product satisfies national or international regulations regarding the use of the appropriate products for navigation or that it contains the latest hydrographic information available.
- All charts are used directly from existing government and other official charts and should not be used solely for navigation. Digital charts are intended to be used as an aid to traditional navigational charts, not as a replacement. Only official government charts and notices to mariners contain all information needed for the safety of navigation, and as always, the captain is responsible for their prudent use. A prudent navigator never relies on any single source of navigational information. Marine GeoGarage strives to provide its customers with the most accurate and up-to-date electronic maps available. However, features are continually changing, so the data may not reflect the latest modifications and/or additions in your area. Marine GeoGarage makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the map data.