As I am sure you all know, more than
70% of the Earth’s surface is water. When you use Google Earth or maps, there is
no detail. It’s a big uniform blue mass.
Some guy in France has mashed up NOAA’s charts
with Google maps to create a detailed map of the
sea.
http://demo.geogarage.com/noaa/
It’s a little buggy but my personal productivity just took a
serious nosedive.
Big thanks to H20- Bonehead Moves on the Water for finding it.
That is so cool.
I also saw it over at Craig’s, it is very cool. You can also go to the NOAA site to download charts:
http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/ChartServerV2.0/jsp/index.jsp?type=BSB
or at xpda.com for .png files:
http://xpda.com/nauticalcharts/