{"id":184310,"date":"2024-01-04T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T15:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/?p=184310"},"modified":"2024-01-04T16:27:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T16:27:27","slug":"bringing-nautical-charts-of-the-erie-canal-into-the-digital-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/bringing-nautical-charts-of-the-erie-canal-into-the-digital-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing nautical charts of the Erie Canal into the digital era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The construction of the Erie Canal was one of 19th Century America&#8217;s most significant feats of engineering. Built between 1817 and 1825, the canal provided a water route from Albany to Buffalo, New York, nearly 363 miles to the west. The Canal connected the Hudson River with the Great Lakes via parts of the Mohawk River, through various land cuts and natural lakes. The New York State Public Works Department and the US War Department\u2019s Corps of Engineers began geographically documenting the canal&#8217;s route with maps and nautical charts beginning in 1917. The Department of Commerce\u2019s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took ownership of the charts in the early 1970&#8217;s and has maintained and updated them for over 50 years. Currently, these charts are undergoing changes to usher them into the digital era of electronic navigational charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/edcf4230ae4e4e30965b79572ee1f380\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">digitizing the Erie Canal ArcGIS StoryMap linked here<\/a> or click the image below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storymaps.arcgis.com\/stories\/edcf4230ae4e4e30965b79572ee1f380\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Waterford_HalldorSigurdsson_1200px.jpg\" alt=\"An image showing the Erie Canal at Waterford, New York during a festival.\" class=\"wp-image-184396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Waterford_HalldorSigurdsson_1200px.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Waterford_HalldorSigurdsson_1200px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Waterford_HalldorSigurdsson_1200px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Waterford_HalldorSigurdsson_1200px-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An image showing the Erie Canal at Waterford, New York during a festival. Credit: Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor\/Halldor K. Sigurdsson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of the Erie Canal was one of 19th Century America&#8217;s most significant feats of engineering. Built between 1817 and 1825, the canal provided a water route from Albany to Buffalo, New York, nearly 363 miles to the west. The Canal connected the Hudson River with the Great Lakes via parts of the Mohawk &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/bringing-nautical-charts-of-the-erie-canal-into-the-digital-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bringing nautical charts of the Erie Canal into the digital era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,37,26,336,379,33,345,10,19,12,13,340],"tags":[383,380,385,384],"class_list":["post-184310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cartography","category-commerce","category-e-navigation","category-electronic-navigational-chart","category-erie-canal","category-gis","category-great-lakes","category-nautical-charts","category-navigation-products","category-navigational-charts","category-noaa","category-noaa-custom-chart","tag-electronic-navigational-charts","tag-erie-canal","tag-erie-canalway-national-heritage-corridor","tag-storymap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184310","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=184310"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184399,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184310\/revisions\/184399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}