{"id":173041,"date":"2020-04-01T18:35:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/?p=173041"},"modified":"2022-03-25T15:18:25","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:18:25","slug":"noaa-modernizes-enc-direct-to-gis-platform-to-offer-faster-tools-to-acquire-gis-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/noaa-modernizes-enc-direct-to-gis-platform-to-offer-faster-tools-to-acquire-gis-data\/","title":{"rendered":"NOAA modernizes ENC Direct to GIS viewer to download GIS data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Scott Sherman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOAA updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/encdirect.noaa.gov\/\">NOAA ENC Direct to GIS<\/a> website with a more modern viewer and the latest Esri GIS tools, removing the requirement for older software. &nbsp;The viewer retains the familiar, easy-to-use interface and tools, now with a modern user interface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2003, ENC Direct to GIS has served the maritime community as well as software developers, hydrodynamic modelers, storm surge analysts, and urban planners by providing GIS downloads of NOAA&#8217;s suite of electronic navigational charts (<a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/charts\/noaa-enc.html\">NOAA ENC\u00ae<\/a>) charts to a GIS format.&nbsp; Over the years, it has been tweaked slightly from customer requirements, but overall, it has stayed fairly consistent with the original design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/encdirect-old-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182767\"\/><figcaption>Previous version of ENC Direct to GIS.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting in October of 2019, a project team was assembled to upgrade ENC Direct to GIS with the latest web technologies and remove it\u2019s dependency on outdated software.&nbsp; The update was made available on April 1, 2020.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/encdirect-new-resized.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-182768\"\/><figcaption>Updated version of ENC Direct to GIS.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Scott Sherman NOAA updated its NOAA ENC Direct to GIS website with a more modern viewer and the latest Esri GIS tools, removing the requirement for older software. &nbsp;The viewer retains the familiar, easy-to-use interface and tools, now with a modern user interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,33,10,18,19,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-navigation","category-gis","category-nautical-charts","category-nautical-charts-2","category-navigation-products","category-navigational-charts","category-noaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173041","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=173041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182770,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173041\/revisions\/182770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}