Charting a Course into the Digital Era Guidance for NOAA's Nautical Charting Mission (1994) / Chapter Skim
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6 Nautical Information Products and Their Dissemination: Toward a New Way of Doing Business
6 Nautical Information Products and Their Dissemination: Toward a New Way of Doing Business
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The alternatives addressed in this chapter for enhancing nautical information products and services are rooted in closer alliances between NOAA and the private sector. NOAA can take advantage of the capabilities and flexibility of private commercial partners to quickly evolve and manufacture diverse nautical information products, achieve rapid and efficient distribution of these products, and possibly generate additional revenues for itself (see Chapter 7~.
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Most of these products are derived from NOAA products. NOAA Products At present, NOAA's nautical chart and information products are paper charts, supporting publications such as Coast Pilots and tide tables, and periodic updates disseminated on paper and via radio transmissions as Notices to Mariners.
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· The frequency of updates/revisions of charts lags significantly behind the Notices to Mariners. The current process of incorporating changes into new NOAA chart editions involves many manual operations that propagate an update through all the affected products, and the printing process often takes months as well.
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As with value-added paper chart products, the digital products offered at present by commercial ventures are inconsistent; offer limited coverage; and, without NOAA's cooperation and assistance, will not be certified for use in an official electronic chart display and information system. A better means must be found to satisfy the important and multifaceted demand for digital nautical chart data in a timely and effective way and to improve the accuracy and consistency of the digital products that NOAA now provides.
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Product Lines NOAA could create partnerships of two different types one for commercial vessel and one for small-craft charts in order to meet the dramatically different needs of two practically and legally distinct groups of nautical chart users. Commercial vessels are defined as those of more than 1,600 tons displacement, which are now required to carry an updated NOAA chart, or International Hydrographic Organ~zation-approved foreign equivalent, in U.S.
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A major benefit of these small-craft chart partnerships is the innovation in product design that will likely result and the improvement in safety that is likely to come from greater and more diverse distribution of chart products. Commercial Vessel Chart Products A parallel set of public and private cooperative agreements could meet the needs of the regulated commercial users of nautical charts, but there are several differences that have to be accommodated.
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Following are suggested attributes of the commercial charts process: · Commercial charts will carry not only the NOAA emblem but also a designation indicating that "this chart is approved for use in regulated navigation and meets SOLAS (Safety of Life at Sea) requirements." · Private partners who print regulated charts should be required to print the full suite of all NOAA charts and to meet rigid NOAA specifications regarding printing quality, paper, ink, style, etc.
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Navy Products Presently a major user of paper nautical charts, the U.S. Navy is moving toward digital navigation and a "paperless bridge." The Navy and the Defense Mapping Agency can obtain digital base data for U.S.
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Because the base data used to produce the small-craft chart products now would be explicitly NOAA certified, however, the publisher's liability position would be slightly better than it is at present. Damages ar1smg trom an accident that results SUMMARY The private-sector partnerships described in this chapter would allow NOAA to take advantage of the expertise in private industry to quickly evolve diverse products with effective methods of distribution, and would refocus NOAA on its distinctive competence in maintaining and certifying the nautical chart base data from which all such products are derived.
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56 attitude on the part of NOAA's management and some initial stimulation of private-sector involvement through incentives or other mechanisms to reduce any perception of financial risk. Changes in legislation also will be required if public/private partnerships are to become vehicles for generating additional funds to support NOAA's nautical charting activities.
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