Title :
ChUM: Chart Update Mashup
Author_Institution :
Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Abstract :
Critical nautical chart corrections are disseminated weekly via the U.S. Coast Guard in the form of a PDF document called the “Local Notice to Mariners.” Users of both paper and electronic nautical charts need to regularly apply these corrections to update their charts for safe navigation. This paper gives a detailed description of a tool, called ChUM (the Chart Update Mashup), that simplifies the process of combining nautical charts with the critical chart corrections and the U.S. Coast Pilot (an aid to navigation) using Google Maps. This geo-referenced interface simplifies finding chart corrections for a specific chart and allows for filtering and sorting the data.
Keywords :
cartography; computerised navigation; document handling; marine engineering; naval engineering computing; sorting; ChUM; Google Maps; PDF document form; U.S. Coast Guard; U.S. Coast Pilot; chart update mashup; data filtering; data sorting; electronic nautical charts; geo-referenced interface; local notice-to-mariners; nautical chart corrections; paper nautical charts; Catalogs; Filtering; Google; Mashups; Navigation; Portable document format; Servers; Coast Pilot; Geo-referenced data; Google Maps; Local Notice to Mariners; mashup; nautical charts;
Conference_Titel :
Oceans, 2012
Conference_Location :
Hampton Roads, VA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0829-8
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404835