[ReeferJon]

I've just had an email from Peio Elissalde of GeoGarage Marine. These guys have launched a new subscription-based site that gives full access to international nautical charts from any web browser.

The site provides subscribed users with access to New Zealand (LINZ), UK (UKHO) and Brazilian charts overlaid onto Google Maps.
Apparently there's some talk of future support for live AIS streams and S57 vector cartography.

Watch with interest!

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[Peio]

Hello,

Marine GeoGarage ushers in a new era of nautical mapping services with the launch of its marine charts portal, built on Cloud Computing technology.
The web site is the world's first online nautical map service allowing to display maps coming from different international Hydrographic Services.

Today the catalogue of charts regroups all the public raster charts from NOAA (US), DHN (Brazil), Linz (New Zealand)
Marine GeoGarage's web interface also gives site visitors viewing access to all private charts from UKHO (UK), CHS (Canada), SHN (Argentina) accessible via some monthly 'Chart Premium' subscription (9.9 €/month)

Today more than 3000 electronic charts are available in the GeoGarage servers; additional providers' layers are in preparation.

The big advantage is that all the layers are kept updated regularly so the user is sure to visualize recent documents.
But the web site is not only a seamless chart viewer overlaying charts at different scales on aerial and satellite imagery from Google Maps.

It also allows the user to plot waypoints and to prepare some navigation routes which can be saved in his account after free registering and uploaded to GPS (in gpx format or directly to Garmin GPS via its Communicator web plugin)

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Peio
Marine GeoGarage

[ActiveCaptain]

They've done an excellent job. There's an incredible amount of work involved in implementing what they've done. I'm sincerely impressed.