Merry Christmas! - Now over 350 Marine Charts for Google Earth in the EarthNC Beta
Complete Harbor Charts for the Lower 48!
Since announcing the public beta of our ‘EarthNC’ marine charts for Google Earth last week, we’ve been releasing additional charts as they exit our conversion process. Our largest release to date occurred yesterday with over 100 new charts posted. With this release, all NOAA ‘Harbor’ (level 5) charts are now available for the lower 48 states, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. We are working the level 5 charts for Alaska at present and then will shift work to convert the remaining Approach and Coastal Charts. Following this, we’ll finish the map set with the Army Corps Inland ENC (IENC) charts.
Notable coverage in the current beta includes full coverage of New York harbor, large portions of the Columbia and Snake rivers in Oregon, excellent coverage of the Florida Keys, and ‘general’ offshore coverage of the entire East Coast, Gulf of Mexico, West Coast, Pacific, and Alaska.
Try out the Maps!
To try out the maps, visit our new website at EarthNC.com . You’ll need Google Earth 4, an internet connection, and a willingness to provide feedback. If you’ve already downloaded the EarthNC index file, it should update coverage automatically next time you load it in Google Earth.
If you’re not sure if you want to register, you can try out the West Bay to Santa Rosa Sound Chart without registration - if you like what you see, join the forum for access to the rest. You’ll need Google Earth 4 to view it. Depending on your web browser, make sure that the file either opens in Google Earth or is saved as a .KMZ file and not a .ZIP file.
Much More to Come!
EarthNC charts are designed to be the backdrop for a wide range of special interest nautical content to include boating events, fishing hot-spots, marine businesses, and much more. Our new Forum lays the groundwork for you to submit your favorite boating places and events - preferably as Google Earth files - for inclusion into the EarthNC chart lineup.
December 29th, 2006 at 3:20 am
[…] In conjunction with our EarthNC Marine Charts for Google Earth we are pleased to announce our 1st Nautical Points-of-Interest layer - West Marine and Boat US store locations. […]
December 29th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
[…] The game is quite simple - using clues posted on your ‘dashboard’, find the invaders and blast them with your laser ray. The game is handled via the use of network links and dynamic KML content generated on a webserver (in our case hosted by DestinSharks.com). Response is a bit slow, but the game is a good example of exploiting the KML 2.1 network link structure - something we’re also using in our EarthNC Marine Charts for Google Earth. The shooting response is automatic and based on checking between the current view center and alien location. This check occurs each time you stop moving the map - so to take extra shots you need to move the map a touch and stop. […]