{"id":172289,"date":"2019-05-07T11:57:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/?p=172289"},"modified":"2023-10-13T19:19:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T19:19:32","slug":"noaa-releases-new-edition-of-nautical-chart-symbol-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-releases-new-edition-of-nautical-chart-symbol-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA releases new edition of nautical chart symbol guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edition\n13 of U.S. Chart No. 1 is now available to download for free on <a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/publications\/us-chart-1.html\">Coast Survey&#8217;s website<\/a>. Paper copies may also be\npurchased from any of four <a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/publications\/print-agents.html#us-chart-one\">NOAA Chart No. 1 publishing agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 130-page book describes the symbols, abbreviations, and terms used on <a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/charts\/noaa-raster-charts.html#paper-nautical-charts\">paper&nbsp; NOAA nautical charts<\/a> and for displaying <a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/charts\/noaa-enc.html\">NOAA electronic navigational chart<\/a> (NOAA ENC\u00ae) data on Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems (ECDIS). The document also shows paper chart symbols used by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and symbols specified by the International Hydrographic Organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1559\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chart-No-1-booklet-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Chart No. 1 booklet covers\" class=\"wp-image-172291\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Printed booklet version of U.S. Chart No. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe back of U.S. Chart No. 1, there is additional information about the\ncharacteristics and appearance of buoys conforming to the International\nAssociation of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iala-aism.org\/product\/r1001-iala-maritime-buoyage-system\/\">Maritime\nBuoyage System<\/a> that is used by the United States and most other seafaring\nnations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the changes implemented in this new addition are listed in the table below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"997\" height=\"1359\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chart-No-1.jpg\" alt=\"Examples of changes found in the new edition of U.S. Chart No. 1.\" class=\"wp-image-172290\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Examples of changes found in the new edition of U.S. Chart No. 1.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edition 13 of U.S. Chart No. 1 is now available to download for free on Coast Survey&#8217;s website. Paper copies may also be purchased from any of four NOAA Chart No. 1 publishing agents. This 130-page book describes the symbols, abbreviations, and terms used on paper&nbsp; NOAA nautical charts and for displaying NOAA electronic navigational &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-releases-new-edition-of-nautical-chart-symbol-guide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NOAA releases new edition of nautical chart symbol guide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,25,80,26,27,10,18,19,12,13,49,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartographic-data","category-cartography","category-chart-catalogs","category-e-navigation","category-marine-transportation-system","category-nautical-charts","category-nautical-charts-2","category-navigation-products","category-navigational-charts","category-noaa","category-recreational-boating","category-u-s-coast-pilot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184305,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172289\/revisions\/184305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}