Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can only open one chart. Suggestions appreciated.
Yes there is, but you have to use an older version of Google Earth. This is explained in the plugin section at opencpn.org. I have read it there, but have not tried it as we have only the latest GE and it will not work with that. Alternatively, and a bit more work but more versatile, is, as you propose, to use weatherfax plug in to georeference a screencap from Google Earth. To do this set up the GE screen to show what you want, then screen cap it. There are a couple approaches. One is just turn on the grid view so you have lat-lon on the image to execute the geo reference, or leave the grid off and drop a pin in two opposite corners whose lat-lon you know and then use those two for the red and green georeference marks. We have videos online showing that process of georeferencing.
Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can open only one chart. Has anyone been successful with Android?
Mr. David I tried doing this but with using the new link on that site that is in location of where you clicked your location and it wasn't working properly. I unchecked the file on the menu of Google Earth to go back to original G.E. mapping and now it is blurred out. Will not clear up. Any ideas as to what happened here or how to fix it?
David- I am on an iMac and when I try to drag the .kmz file onto google earth I get a "Open of file noaa_rncs-2.kmz failed: Parse error at line 11 column 2: not well-formed (invalid token) Any idea what this might be? Thank you for your video too!
I do not know of others that will show on Google Earth. You can see all official charts available worldwide at www.iho.int/srv1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393&Itemid=424&lang=en. OpenCPN is a good way to view charts. At their site www.opencpn.org check the chart resources tab for a list of charting options.
PS. We will shortly have an extended article on sources for viewing international nautical charts online . Periodically check our blog for this. Hopefully this month. davidburchnavigation.blogspot.com/
Ive added the file and have the data there, from the most current link- but nothing happens when I click the collarless preview option. I am doing this on a mac book in GE PRO with chrome as my default browser- am I doing anything wrong?
Hi James. I am not sure what is happening. I just now (apr 15, 2018)downloaded the second link in the description, then right clicked it, and said open in GE Pro, it did that, showed the outlines on the globe and when i click collared or collarless view it nicely shows the chart. this is also macbook pro using chrome. must be some preferences setting that is blocking it.
GREAT video, and tool! Toward the end, you show downloading the chart, but when i did this, when I opened Google Earth again, it downloaded it again. So, my question is, how do I let google Earth know that i have it already on my pc, and don't need it to be downloaded again, when previewing it. It seems to want to download it every time i view them.
They typically download to "Temporary Places" location when first run, and if you do not save these to "My Places" they are lost, and you have to start from scratch. I think it should ask you to save these if you close without doing so.
Google earth help, advise me that I need to enable KMZ file import on Google Earth Settings. Unfortunately, I don't have that feature perhaps due to my Canada location.
Does this still work? When I tried to copy the kmz file to Google earth, it just downloaded the file to my computer again, didn't add anything to Google Earth.
Yes, it still works. Once you have file on your computer, then open Google Earth and just drag the file to the screen, or maybe just double click the KMZ file and it will load into GE. Then save when closing GE.
@@StarpathNav Thanks. I tried it a few times, but each time the file just downloads to my computer again and nothing appears on GE. Wonder if it doesn't work because I'm in Canada.
@@JohnR406 Sorry about that. i forgot there was an online version of GE. I have never used it. I will go back and make a note in the description. Thanks for tracking this down.
Brian, i just checked your site. Very nice work you are doing. I think you might like similar work done by our friends at oarnorthwest. On their latest trip down the Mississippi they had a google street view camera on the boat for the whole trip, one end to the other, and we will shorty have a google street view of the whole river. see oarnorthwest.com PS. if the new link from last comment does not work right, please let us know.
This video is three years old, is there an update for Google Earth Pro. That's what I'm using and while the chart outlines are imported with the noaa_rncs.kmz file, the actual charts do not load from the thumbnails view in your video tutorial.
I will check this again as soon as i can, but we did check it about a month ago using GE pro and all worked as advertised... not sure why i don't see the comments and discussion for that. Please check to see if we have two videos on this subject. Discussion also notes we updated the link in jan 16, 2018, but this was after that.
Sorry, i do not follow. How does the browser enter in? I think you can download the file from NOAA with any browser and then I think you can just drag it onto GE and it will open. I am tied up now but will try again... after deleting the one we have stored in GE that works. or right click it and say open with GE.
Just checked this again, and it works. Not sure what the issue is. I might mention that we have other links to ways to see charts from NOAA www.starpath.com/getcharts
This is a great way to merge satellite photo data with NOAA charts. What I was not able to do is download the charts in order to view them offline. The download has .bsb and .kap files, but Earth uses .kmz and .kml file types. Is there a trick to be able to download and view this offline?
+Ted Owens. Many navigators want them in that format so they can be loaded into an echart program for viewing and navigation. One popular free tool for that is from opencpn.org. If you do not have that type of need, then you can go to the NOAA web site and download a hi-res pdf of the chart. One short cut to get to the downloads is www.starpath.com/getcharts . This GE tool does not expedite that link to the specific charts, but you can learn what the chart number is that you might want, and that will save time on the direct download. But maybe i misunderstand your question. If you want to save the images they show here, then open up the my places link to the data section of this noaa package, and there you can actually store the image they are overlaying. It cannot be stored as an offline graphic, but you can copy and rename that one component of the kmz package then paste it separately into my places, for later quick view of just that chart. As i recall, you can then even delete the main noaa section and it will leave that one image overlay to view as needed.
If you are still monitoring this page, your information will enable me to learn some of the details of a little-known U.S. top-secret submarine spy mission against North Korea in 1968; Wonsan, NK to be more specific. Thanks!
@@StarpathNav Thanks for that. Disappointing. How about WWII-era Japanese charts? During WWII, Korea was a colony of Japan so they'd want to know where it was safe to maneuver their submarines. Are WWII charts available? I'm interested in knowing where 250-foot depths exist, not 25 feet. I understand that the depth at the continental shelf is 250 feet, but I need more than averages.
Sorry, i do not know more. Major change in slope at the shelf is more like at 100 fathoms (600 ft) on average, worldwide. This can be studied worldwide very well with Google Earth. Set it up to show "elevation" in the status bar, bottom right. Depths will be a negative number.
It's all over the world.. oh I mean all over the US waters..." So funny.. typical American slip.. Thanks for the tip. Will use when in American waters..
Davesecond link is not workinggreat videojust getting back to boating after 25 years awayBoy has navigation changed: paper charts, compass, parallels , dead reckoning, sextant, sun and stars, book of tables-->WOW!!!!
Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can open only one chart. Has anyone been successful with Android?
This is so cool! I'm so glad I ran across this video, otherwise I probably would never known about this utility. Thanks for sharing!
Boundaries only 🙄
Thank you very much for the tutorial David.
This is AMAZING! Thank you so much for sharing!!!!!!!!!!!
-Hunter
That's one hell of a tip right there Thank you sir
Great informative video, such a pity that we don't have this for the Australian coast!
Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can only open one chart. Suggestions appreciated.
I'll just come out and say what is on everyone's mind: Is there a way to map google maps satellite views to OpenCPN ? (weatherfax plugin can do this?)
Yes there is, but you have to use an older version of Google Earth. This is explained in the plugin section at opencpn.org. I have read it there, but have not tried it as we have only the latest GE and it will not work with that. Alternatively, and a bit more work but more versatile, is, as you propose, to use weatherfax plug in to georeference a screencap from Google Earth. To do this set up the GE screen to show what you want, then screen cap it. There are a couple approaches. One is just turn on the grid view so you have lat-lon on the image to execute the geo reference, or leave the grid off and drop a pin in two opposite corners whose lat-lon you know and then use those two for the red and green georeference marks. We have videos online showing that process of georeferencing.
@@StarpathNav Thanks for the insight, I'll give it a try.
It's just too bad our Canadian Hydrographic Service doesn't do the same thing.
Great stuff. However, I found both links to be dead. Maybe it became a paid service. Not sure. Thanks for the info.
To Mo River comment: I just checked and both links worked for me using Google Chrome.
Works a charm on Earth pro
Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can open only one chart. Has anyone been successful with Android?
Mr. David I tried doing this but with using the new link on that site that is in location of where you clicked your location and it wasn't working properly. I unchecked the file on the menu of Google Earth to go back to original G.E. mapping and now it is blurred out. Will not clear up. Any ideas as to what happened here or how to fix it?
David- I am on an iMac and when I try to drag the .kmz file onto google earth I get a "Open of file noaa_rncs-2.kmz failed: Parse error at line 11 column 2: not well-formed (invalid token)
Any idea what this might be?
Thank you for your video too!
What charts can you use for other parts of the world? I am on the sea of Japan. Nakhodka, Russia
I do not know of others that will show on Google Earth. You can see all official charts available worldwide at www.iho.int/srv1/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=393&Itemid=424&lang=en. OpenCPN is a good way to view charts. At their site www.opencpn.org check the chart resources tab for a list of charting options.
PS. We will shortly have an extended article on sources for viewing international nautical charts online . Periodically check our blog for this. Hopefully this month. davidburchnavigation.blogspot.com/
So I successfully downloaded the NOAA overlays but now when I zoom in for larger detail , the useful details grey out ??? Can you explain that ???
Ive added the file and have the data there, from the most current link- but nothing happens when I click the collarless preview option. I am doing this on a mac book in GE PRO with chrome as my default browser- am I doing anything wrong?
Hi James. I am not sure what is happening. I just now (apr 15, 2018)downloaded the second link in the description, then right clicked it, and said open in GE Pro, it did that, showed the outlines on the globe and when i click collared or collarless view it nicely shows the chart. this is also macbook pro using chrome. must be some preferences setting that is blocking it.
GREAT video, and tool! Toward the end, you show downloading the chart, but when i did this, when I opened Google Earth again, it downloaded it again. So, my question is, how do I let google Earth know that i have it already on my pc, and don't need it to be downloaded again, when previewing it. It seems to want to download it every time i view them.
They typically download to "Temporary Places" location when first run, and if you do not save these to "My Places" they are lost, and you have to start from scratch. I think it should ask you to save these if you close without doing so.
Google earth help, advise me that I need to enable KMZ file import on Google Earth Settings. Unfortunately, I don't have that feature perhaps due to my Canada location.
Doesn't work for me either. Downloaded 272 MB ZIP file, but then what? Too complicated unfortunately.
Does this still work? When I tried to copy the kmz file to Google earth, it just downloaded the file to my computer again, didn't add anything to Google Earth.
Yes, it still works. Once you have file on your computer, then open Google Earth and just drag the file to the screen, or maybe just double click the KMZ file and it will load into GE. Then save when closing GE.
@@StarpathNav Thanks. I tried it a few times, but each time the file just downloads to my computer again and nothing appears on GE. Wonder if it doesn't work because I'm in Canada.
@@StarpathNav Got it to work after downloading Google Earth Pro, instead of using web version of GE. That wasn't explained in your video.
@@JohnR406 Sorry about that. i forgot there was an online version of GE. I have never used it. I will go back and make a note in the description. Thanks for tracking this down.
The second link, nosimagery.noaa.gov/rnc/NOAA_RNCs.kmz doesn't work anymore... Do you know what the updated link might be? Thanks!
nosimagery.noaa.gov/rnc/noaa_rncs.kmz i will change the master. thanks. --david
Brian, i just checked your site. Very nice work you are doing. I think you might like similar work done by our friends at oarnorthwest. On their latest trip down the Mississippi they had a google street view camera on the boat for the whole trip, one end to the other, and we will shorty have a google street view of the whole river. see oarnorthwest.com PS. if the new link from last comment does not work right, please let us know.
This video is three years old, is there an update for Google Earth Pro. That's what I'm using and while the chart outlines are imported with the noaa_rncs.kmz file, the actual charts do not load from the thumbnails view in your video tutorial.
I will check this again as soon as i can, but we did check it about a month ago using GE pro and all worked as advertised... not sure why i don't see the comments and discussion for that. Please check to see if we have two videos on this subject. Discussion also notes we updated the link in jan 16, 2018, but this was after that.
Which web browser are you using? I'm using Google Chrome and this just is not working.
Sorry, i do not follow. How does the browser enter in? I think you can download the file from NOAA with any browser and then I think you can just drag it onto GE and it will open. I am tied up now but will try again... after deleting the one we have stored in GE that works. or right click it and say open with GE.
Just checked this again, and it works. Not sure what the issue is. I might mention that we have other links to ways to see charts from NOAA www.starpath.com/getcharts
Google Earth also has a stand-alone version that is independent of a browser. I think you have to use that version.
this is great is there an irish / uk / euro version ?
Not that i know of. The issue is the charts. They are all copyrighted in UK and Europe.
NOAA charts are only US charts.
Is there a way to do this with Canadian charts??
No NOAA charts are only US charts
This is a great way to merge satellite photo data with NOAA charts. What I was not able to do is download the charts in order to view them offline. The download has .bsb and .kap files, but Earth uses .kmz and .kml file types. Is there a trick to be able to download and view this offline?
+Ted Owens. Many navigators want them in that format so they can be loaded into an echart program for viewing and navigation. One popular free tool for that is from opencpn.org. If you do not have that type of need, then you can go to the NOAA web site and download a hi-res pdf of the chart. One short cut to get to the downloads is www.starpath.com/getcharts . This GE tool does not expedite that link to the specific charts, but you can learn what the chart number is that you might want, and that will save time on the direct download.
But maybe i misunderstand your question. If you want to save the images they show here, then open up the my places link to the data section of this noaa package, and there you can actually store the image they are overlaying. It cannot be stored as an offline graphic, but you can copy and rename that one component of the kmz package then paste it separately into my places, for later quick view of just that chart. As i recall, you can then even delete the main noaa section and it will leave that one image overlay to view as needed.
Drag the file onto Google Earth.
Your second link (nosimagery.noaa.gov/rnc/noaa_rncs.kmz) is not working for me.
Yes it is as then there would be 100% continuity for the North American continent !!!
Cool. Thanks
If you are still monitoring this page, your information will enable me to learn some of the details of a little-known U.S. top-secret submarine spy mission against North Korea in 1968; Wonsan, NK to be more specific. Thanks!
NOAA does not make charts of foreign waters and US Navy charts of foreign waters are no longer available to the public.
@@StarpathNav Thanks for that. Disappointing. How about WWII-era Japanese charts? During WWII, Korea was a colony of Japan so they'd want to know where it was safe to maneuver their submarines. Are WWII charts available? I'm interested in knowing where 250-foot depths exist, not 25 feet. I understand that the depth at the continental shelf is 250 feet, but I need more than averages.
Sorry, i do not know more. Major change in slope at the shelf is more like at 100 fathoms (600 ft) on average, worldwide. This can be studied worldwide very well with Google Earth. Set it up to show "elevation" in the status bar, bottom right. Depths will be a negative number.
You need to download Google Earth, not just have it open in a tab. Then you can drag and drop the file.
Yes. That is correct you need to have GE installed on your computer.
It's all over the world.. oh I mean all over the US waters..." So funny.. typical American slip.. Thanks for the tip. Will use when in American waters..
More on Navigation and Cartography: americanadmiraltybooks.blogspot.com/p/navigation.html
Davesecond link is not workinggreat videojust getting back to boating after 25 years awayBoy has navigation changed: paper charts, compass, parallels , dead reckoning, sextant, sun and stars, book of tables-->WOW!!!!
another dead link for the charts .... noaa/gov changed it .... again
Does anyone know the current links?? I would love to try this but can not find the NOAA Charts info
seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/ImageServer/kml/mapImage.kmz
THAT DID NOT WORK AT ALL!
seamlessrnc.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/RNC/NOAA_RNC/ImageServer/kml/mapImage.kmz Drag the file onto Google Earth
WAIST OF TIME DAMN!
Ang Bar u
Wonderful use of Google Earth for navigation and it works fine on Windows 10. But can it be done on Android (ver 5.1.1) on my Samsung Pro Tab 12? Once I open the first "collarless" chart, the ENC chart outlines disappear. So I can open only one chart. Has anyone been successful with Android?