The tan and blue paper nautical charts that line wheelhouses and galleys on Alaska ships will soon be a relic of the past. In an effort to increase automation and adapt to digital navigation, the ...

In a recent column I wrote about options for nautical charts, including "print on demand" charts. But since GPS based chartplotters are so common—I even have a small portable unit on my 18-foot ...

A Colorado company develops an iPad app that will deliver electronic aeronautical charts to airline cockpits, and some airlines are testing tablet use in the cockpit. Kent was a senior managing editor ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Many recreational boaters are not aware that traditional Marine Navigation ...

It won't be long before mariners and the boating public will have a wider choice of options and special services when they purchase NOAA paper nautical charts, thanks to NOAA's expanded ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with surveying the nation's navigable waters to help keep mariners off the rocks and out of the shallows, will cease ...

The digital era is gradually taking over our institutional memory in healthcare. Every year, the next generation of physicians enters the workforce with no lived experience of a paper-based, analog ...