Posted in Featured Maps, Poker Runs, Special Events, Trips and Guides on Jul 29th, 2007
The Emerald Coast Poker Run is one of the nation’s largest with 400+ boats cruising ports of call between Destin and Pensacola, Florida. To help participants and spectators, we’ve produced a special Google My Map which you can view below in Google Maps showing all the stops, special no-wake areas, and the larger [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, trips and routes on Jul 24th, 2007
EarthNC goes sailing this week with Frank Taylor from Google Earth Blog. Frank is a long-time sailor and will be using EarthNC plus charts in conjunction with a Garmin Handheld and GooPs real-time GPS software for Google Earth during his upcoming British Virgin Islands charter. While EarthNC’s chart coverage primarily includes US waters, the [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, TakItWithMe on Jul 23rd, 2007
We appreciate the huge online response we’ve received for TakItWithMe our new Google My Maps and KML to GPS converter.
Here are just a few of the websites that have reviewed our service. If we’ve missed yours, please drop us a message with our Contact Form and we’ll add you to the list. Got [...]
Posted in EarthNC News on Jul 20th, 2007
EarthNC was featured in the July edition of Hydro International Magazine. Quoting from their summary:
“Google Earth and its related layer language Keyhole Markup Language (KML) have taken the mapping world by storm. Combining an approachable user interface, high-quality satellite imagery, and free cost (for personal use), it has encouraged a thriving developer community for [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps on Jul 18th, 2007
This table lists the current EarthNC Vector Chart catalog organized by State and/or River name. You can click on a State abrieviation in the list below to jump down in the table.
Preview a chart in Google Earth by clicking on the chart name. Once the chart is loaded, double click on the chart name [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps, Featured Maps, TakItWithMe, Trips and Guides, gps on Jul 18th, 2007
While developing our new TakItWithMe Google My Maps to GPS service, we ran across a great Google My Map of the Trent Severn Waterway produced by TheWaterway.ca. The Trent Severn waterway links eastern Lake Ontario with Lake Huron via Georgian Bay. The route is 240 miles long, includes 44 locks (many of them [...]
Posted in EarthNC News, TakItWithMe, gps, trips and routes on Jul 16th, 2007
The EarthNC team is pleased to announce TakItWithMe™ Beta (www.takitwithme.com) a new service for uploading Google My Maps and Google Earth geo content to Garmin and other handheld devices. Anyone familiar with using Google Maps or Google Earth can transfer online map content including points, routes, geo search results, and Google Earth files to [...]
Posted in EarthNC News on Jul 15th, 2007
We hope you enjoy our new website layout. We’re growing and our site is growing with us.
Here are just a few of the positive changes:
Simpler EarthNC Online interface for access to our marine Google Earth content
New EarthNC Community Forum
Submit Content Form - point us to other maps and data or upload your own photos and [...]
Posted in Charts and Maps on Jul 14th, 2007
We welcome user submissions and will add them to our maps as fast as possible. Point us to your favorite boating websites or submit your own photos, video links, or Google Earth KML/KMZ files. Please fill in the location name and latitude/longitude whenever possible.
To submit a video, just paste the YouTube, Revver, or other link [...]
Posted in Weather and Tides on Jul 10th, 2007
We’re happy to announce a dynamic Google Earth data layer for the NOAA Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) Program position/weather reports. The VOS feed contains ship weather observations from around the world updated hourly. This was our 1st true dynamic layer to coincide with the EarthNC Marine Charts.
Double-click to enlarge the image above.NOAA VOS [...]