The End of Civilisation has begun...

[superquag]

Verily verily, it hath come to pass, that the Gospel of Electronic Devices doth prevail over the works of Gutenburg and Senefelder...

NOAA announces end of traditional paper nautical charts (http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2013/20131022_nauticalcharts.html)


It is only a matter of time before this New Religion replaces the Old, even in this far-flung corner of the 'Known World'...

James the Luddite
-but joined in sinfullness to a '95 Classic with working Air Suspension and many other Strange Ixian Devices...

[Lotz-A-Landies]

Cost.

Print on demand while more expensive for the user, means less waste for the US Government and ensures up-to-date information on the charts.

[Ferret]

Free nautical charts - now you will never have to worry about sailing off the edge of the world.


For the three-month trial period, NOAA is providing about a thousand high-resolution printable nautical charts—almost the entire NOAA suite of charts—as PDF files. The PDF nautical charts, which are exact images of the traditional charts currently printed by lithography, will be available for free download on October 22.