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A nice write up from our friends at Boats.com

EarthNC — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:30 +0000

A great summary of our latest version of our Marine Charts from Boats.com. Enjoy!

http://www.boats.com/blog/2011/12/earthnc-31-cell-phone-or-chart-plotter/

Routing for iPhone / iPad is now officially available.

EarthNC — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:51:53 +0000

We officially released multi-point routing for the iPhone and iPad this morning. We’re fired up with this new functionality and hope you all are as well! Here is the actual press release.

Gulf of Mexico Lease Block Charts

EarthNC — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:02:50 +0000

Lease Block charts are a common tool for offshore fishing.

Our new EarthNC Chartviewer features the full set of Gulf Lease Block charts for free online viewing. Here are direct links to each of the charts:

- Chart 1113A – Lease Block for Havana to Tampa Bay
- Chart 1114A – Lease Block for Tampa to Cape San Blas
- Chart 1115A – Lease Block for Cape St George to the Mississippi Passes
- Chart 1116A – Lease Block for the Mississippi River to Galveston
- Chart 1117A – Lease Block Galveston to the Rio Grande

Use our Route Maker tool under ‘Routing’ to generate waypoints you can export to KML, GPX, or a print out.

For offline use with GPS integration, EarthNC offers a full set of lease block charts for Google Earth on our EartNC Raster Southest DVD. Most offline users will also want our EarthNC Plus vector charts and GooPs Pro GPS to Google Earth software. The EarthNC Plus vector charts include charted pipelines and offshore platforms which are also great resources for finding fish.

Florida Permitted Artificial Reef Locations

EarthNC — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:53:05 +0000

Looking for a fishing or dive spot off the Florida coast? EarthNC has created a new map of permitted artificial reef locations based on data maintained by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC). It contains over 2200 individual sites.

Included Reef Information with Most Sites:

Site Name
Deployment Date
Construction Material
Depth
Dimensions (length, width, height, approximate volume)

Each reef site also has a unique ‘submit information’ link so that users can contribute more information to share with other boaters.

Try it Out

Click Here to open the EarthNC Florida Permitted Artificial Reefs Map in Google Earth. To combine reef information with Online Nautical charts including buoys, markers, and lights, try our free EarthNC Online service.

Need Google Earth? Download it free HERE!

Erie Islands, Sandusky Bay Maps, Charts, and Weather

EarthNC — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:48:43 +0000

The Erie Islands and Sandusky are the most active boating area on the Great Lakes and feature the most boats per capita in the USA. This area is rich in history and featured large during the War of 1812 and the naval battles around Put-In-Bay Island. For modern day adventure, Cedar Point Amusement Park offers one of the best collections roller-coasters in the world.

Explore Put-In-Bay, Sandusky Bay, Catawba Island, Kellys Island and the surrounding waters of Lake Erie with our free interactive nautical map. Zoom in and local marine charts showing depths, channels, and other features will load automatically. Click on the ‘View Full Screen’ link for additional options including weather (buoys, airports, marine forecasts) in the ‘Nearby’ menu and a route making tool for drawing and saving your own trip. Use the Map Search bar to find marine businesses, hotels, or other locations.

EarthNC National Buoy Data Center Weather Buoys for Google Earth

EarthNC — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:41:13 +0000

The EarthNC National Buoy Data Center (NDBC) Buoy Weather Google Earth file displays hourly weather observations for U.S. and international lakes, coastlines, and oceans based on available feeds from the NDBC. This KML file is refreshed at approximately 30 minutes after the hour each hour. It will automatically refresh in Google Earth.

Click HERE to View in Google Earth

Finding Buoys and Observations:

Active weather locations are marked with yellow buoy icons (). These icons are rotated to point into the prevailing wind. A circular background color, if present, indicates wave states greater than 4 feet. Similarly, the presence of red wind flags indicates elevated wind speeds above 18 knots. Hover the mouse over any buoy to see its full name and official tracking number.

Specific wind and wave ranges are indicated by the Buoy Legend show below and also available in the Google Earth Place Menu.

Detailed Observations, Historical Plots, and Buoy Notes:

Click on a buoy to see detailed information. Each buoy description includes:

The Individual Buoy Homepage at the NBDC
The latest text observation for the buoy (rendered in real-time from the NDBC Buoy RSS feed)
Any NBDC provided station notes
Links to historical observation plots if available – such as wind, wave, and temperature trends

Disclaimer

This map is not an official source of weather data and should be used for planning only.

Florida Boat Ramps Map – Google ‘Placemark of the Month’

EarthNC — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:23:37 +0000

Our recent Florida Boat Ramps Map for Google Earth was honored as a Google ‘Placemark of the Month’ in the June 2008 Google Sightseer Newsletter. The Sightseer is Google’s official newsletter about all things Google Earth and you can subscribe HERE to keep up to date on the latest Google Earth news.

Thanks Google!

Pensacola Dives Sites and Fishing Spots from MTB Divers

EarthNC — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:06:41 +0000

Looking for new dive or fishing sites near Pensacola, Florida?

We’ve created a Google Earth map showing the location of many reefs, wrecks based on the public divesite database provided by MTB Divers a Pensacola Dive Shop. Points of interest run the gamut from small concrete fish havens to tanks to ships. Most points of interest include a short reef/wreck description and depth.

Try it Out!
To use the MTB Divers Dive Sites map, you need to have installed Google Earth 4.2 or higher. If you don’t have Google Earth, get it HERE free.

Click HERE to load the EarthNC MTB Divers Pensacola Dive Sites Map in Google Earth.

View Gulf Coast Navigation Charts with EarthNC Online
Our EarthNC Online Chart and Map Service offers limited versions of NOAA and Army Corps Nautical Charts for Google Earth, which include the waters off Pensacola, Florida.

If you’re looking for full navigation charts for the Gulf Coast, consider EarthNC Plus Vector Charts and EarthNC Raster Charts for Google Earth.

NOAA Chart Notices

EarthNC — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:31:16 +0000

Quickly find pending NOAA nautical chart changes with the EarthNC NOAA Chart Notices layer. Chart notices include additions, deletions, and changes to NOAA Raster Charts (RNC) since the previous print edition and are organized by Chart Number. The EarthNC Chart Notices layer is updated nightly to reflect the most recent information available from NOAA for the entire Raster Chart catalog.
While NOAA Notices do include changes from Local Notices to Mariners, they are not a substitution for LNMs and should not be treated as an official source for charting and should be used in accordance with the NOAA disclaimer found in the Google Earth file.

Using the Chart Notice Layer

Download the EarthNC Chart Notice Index Map into Google Earth
Find the Chart Desired (by default only harbor and approach chart scales are displayed, enable other scales by checking its visibility box in the Google Earth ‘Places’ menu)
Click on the () icon to see the total number of notices for this chart and to see the ‘View’ links
Click on the ‘Click to View Chart Notices’ link in the chart pop-up window. This will load notices for the selected chart into Google Earth. If saved to ‘My Places’ this overlay will automatically refresh daily. If you need to use the notices without an internet connection, use the ‘download’ link instead – but this link will not refresh.

Legend and Usage Notes
Notices have four principle types:
Change (non-position) – Changes in an object’s label, note, etc… but not to its position

Move – The charted object has moved from a previous location to the one at the location of the chart notice

Addition – A new object that was not previously in the chart

Deletion – The given object has been removed from the chart

USS Oriskany and Other 3D Ocean Models

EarthNC — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:27:51 +0000

Quickly following up on their new 3D Ocean Floor in Google Earth 5.0, Google has been populating the ocean with a unique set of 3D models of famous shipwrecks, reefs, and other objects. To tour these models, you can open the 3D Ocean Models Tour.

Near and dear to EarthNC’s heart is the included model for the USS Oriskany Aircraft Carrier that was sunk off the coast of Northwest Florida in May of 2006. We watched the sinking 1st hand from our 28′ Regal cruiser 27 miles offshore from our home port of Fort Walton Beach Florida. Our coverage of the sinking was the first major story of our new boating blog DestinSharks.com and eventually led to the founding of EarthNC two years ago to market Nautical Products for Google Earth.

To commemorate the new 3D Oriskany model, we’ve published our own special Sinking of the USS Oriskany KML file for Google Earth. Our KML includes the embedded video of the sinking, the ‘official’ location of the Oriskany as provided by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, and our boat’s GPS track while filming.

If you plan to visit the USS Oriskany by boat, we recommend you not use the 3D model location as it appears to be off by nearly a mile from the published location. The model is quite realistic, but has a couple of minor errors. The hangar elevators where removed prior to sinking and the large radar dome on the aft island superstructure floated free during the sinking.