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Office of Coast Survey
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Keown, Patrick
240-533-0031
1315 East West Hwy
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
patrick.keown@noaa.gov
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2024-02-29T00:00:00
ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata Part 2 Extensions for imagery and gridded data
ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Historical Map & Chart Collection of NOAA's Nautical Charts, Hydrographic Surveys, Topographic Surveys, Geodetic Surveys, City Plans, and Civil War Battle Maps Starting from the mid 1700's
historical_chart
2002
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NOAA/NMFS/EDM
39977
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39977
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http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/ctp/abstract.htm
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The Historical Map and Chart Collection of the Office of Coast Survey contains over 20000 historical maps and charts from the mid 1700s through the late 1900s. These images are available for viewing or download through the image catalog at https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/search . The Collection includes some of the nation's earliest nautical charts, hydrographic surveys, topographic surveys, geodetic surveys, city plans and Civil War battle maps. The Collection is a rich primary historical archive and a testament to the artistry of copper plate engraving technology of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Notable offerings include maps of Vancouver's explorations, the "Wilkes Atlas" of the U.S. Whistler's Anacapa Island chart, an extensive Civil War collection, a large scale topographic series of Washington, D.C., city plans, the reengraving of the famous 1792 L'Enfant and Ellicott plan for Washington D.C., and many artistic perspective sketches that were once an integral part of hydrographic surveys and published charts.
Since 1996, the Coast Survey has been engaged in a long term project to develop high resolution digital images of its entire archive of historic maps and charts. These archived maps have very significant historical value in and of themselves, and also provide a thorough documentation of the evolution of cartographic and engraving techniques over the past two centuries.
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Keown, Patrick
240-533-0031
1315 East West Hwy
Silver Spring
MD
20910-3282
patrick.keown@noaa.gov
pointOfContact
Galdi, Ben
ben.galdi@noaa.gov
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Nautical Charting
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NOS Data Explorer Topic Catebory
aeronautical charts
bathymetric maps
city plans
civil war maps
historical charts
historical maps
hydrographic surveys
marine navigation
oceans
topographic maps
theme
Africa
Asia
Canada
Europe
Global
Greenland
Mexico
Middle East
Pacific Ocean
Phillipine Islands
Puerto Rico
Russia
South America
United States
Virgin Islands
West Indies
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DOC/NOAA/NOS/OCS > Office of Coast Survey, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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2017-04-24
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Cite As: Office of Coast Survey, [Date of Access]: Historical Map & Chart Collection of NOAA's Nautical Charts, Hydrographic Surveys, Topographic Surveys, Geodetic Surveys, City Plans, and Civil War Battle Maps Starting from the mid 1700's [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/39977.
NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
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Access Constraints: None
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Use Constraints: The Historical Map and Chart Collection is available for free usage by the general public, other Federal, State or Local agencies, and educational institutions. If the images are used in a publication, presentation or exhibit, the Coast Survey requests an appropriate credit line be included such as "From the Image Archives of the Historical Map & Chart Collection/Office of Coast Survey/National Ocean Service/NOAA".
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Distribution Liability: All maps and charts in public domain. Usage is not restricted.
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
NOAA/NMFS/EDM
39977
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inportserve/waf/noaa/nos/ocs/dmp/pdf/39977.pdf
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NOAA Data Management Plan (DMP)
NOAA Data Management Plan for this record on InPort.
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| Currentness: Publication Date
1747
2001
The Coast Survey and its predecessor agencies have been producing maps and chart products for over 150 years. In the early 1800's, the United States consisted of some interior territory and 16 states along the eastern seaboard. Commerce between the states was mostly waterborne. Foreign trade, necessary for the survival and expansion of our national economy, was entirely by sea. A lack of nautical charts made navigation dangerous in the unknown watersalong the U.S. coasts and in the young nation's harbors. Inadequate sketches of a few areas and written descriptions such as Blunt's Coast Pilot were the only printed information available to the mariner. Shipwrecks were common, insurance rates high, and products of commerce correspondingly highly priced.President Thomas Jefferson, among others, foresaw the need for comprehensive, reliable nautical charts to safeguard shipping. On February 10, 1807, Congress passed an act authorizing President Jefferson ". . . to cause a survey to be taken of coasts of the United States, in which shall be designated the islands and shoals and places of anchorage . . ."The first U.S. Government-produced nautical chart, a black and white print made in 1835 from a stone engraving, was of Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut. Although lacking in the detail of today's charts, it was compiled to an exceptional cartographic accuracy that has been a consistent characteristic of U.S. nautical charts throughout the years. Acquisition of a copperplate printing press in 1842 enabled the Coast Survey to publish a chart of New York Bay and Harbor in 1844 with finer definition than was possible from stone engravings. The addition of color, first added to the charts by hand in the 1800's and then by color lithographic processes in the early 1900's, enhanced the usefulness of the charts.From its inception, Coast Survey was in the forefront of new surveying innovations. It used schooners to perform surveys, lead lines to measure soundings, and astronomic fixes and dead reckoning to position a survey ship when out of sight of land on the first hydrographic surveys in late 1834 and early 1835. Through the maps and charts Coast Survey produced from the early 1800's to present, the history of cartographic techniques and applications can be traced from early stone engravings to today's computer generated negatives. Coast Survey historical charts and surveys contain some of the finest landscape perspectives and harbor views drawn in the 1800's.
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Office of Coast Survey
1315 East West Highway
Silver Spring
MD
20910
https://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/
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http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
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http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
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http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
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http://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/historicals/historical_zoom.asp
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