CHART SELECTION

BY:
ENTRADA, MELCOSME D.
 OBJECTIVE

In the end of this topic, the students should be

able to:
Know the
The biggest single advantage of electronic charts
over paper systems to the professional
navigator is the ease of correction. Both raster
and vector system allow automatic electronic
correction of the charts onboard, with no
work on the part of the navigator. This means
that the corrections are inserted exactly as
intended by the marine cartographer.
The potential labor reductions for a ship with a
worldwide portfolio of 2000-3000 charts are
also significant. It is estimated that there are
10,000-15,000 manual corrections to be made
by the navigator in a typical year for a
worldwide paper portfolio of this size
The electronic corrections also lend themselves
to electronic transmission so that corrections
to be passed immediately to the ship, which is
a vast improvement on a traditional paper-
based system that often took months to reach
a ship by post , although paper chart small
corrections can now be transmitted
electronically and printed out onboard.
The electronic system also allow the electronic
transmission of whole new charts. This could
be either because of unexpected passage
change at sea or the issue of a new chart
edition when it would usually be impractical
to get the chart to the ship at sea in a paper-
based system.
Another significant advantage is the ability to
easily add extra information, overlaid on top
of electronic chart. This can include routes,
notes, and links to extra material, tidal
currents and lines of safety. Moreover this
information can be save as both a permanent
record and also brought back from storage for
reusing when a vessel undertakes a second
transit of the same area in the same der.
Another pencil saving advantage is that the
electronic chart lends itself to electronic fixing
methods. GNSS system can feed the position.