Hello
A number of months ago the quality of Canadian Vector charts degraded. Cells have become unusable at larger scales. Search functions also stopped working. Is this a setting I have wrong or has licensing changed?
Raster charts also seem to be fading in quality and coverage. I paid for both Raster and Vector charts full suite for BC coast and now find areas where the charts are not adequately scaled.
Regards,
Fergus Stewart
Fergus, the Raster charts are discontinued as of Dec 2024 and are no longer available. Are you still having issues with the quality of Vector charts in BC?
That is a real shame the Rasters are discontinued. Is the that CHS or your decision? Raster charts are superior in many ways for geographical reference. ENCs make landmarks and island names very hard to find if they exist at all. Do they not use Raster charts to print paper charts? Are all paper charts now discontinued? I’m happy to chase this with CHS if you are not getting the data you need to build better charts. As an industry, I’d be very concerned with this. Push towards ECDIS means hydrographic data should be getting better, not worse.
The ENCs are what I’m most concerned about. The quality is so low it would not satisfy ECDIS requirements. I’m not sure if the is CHS , NOAA or Rose Point. Below are some examples from the BC coast. These are primary shipping routes with commercial and small vessel traffic.
The first 2 examples show the difference in data available from Raster to Vector. No comparrison to the mariner. I have been sailing proffessionally all over the world for 25 years and Juan de Fuca straight now shows lower quality ENC data that the mexican coast in the late 90s. Basically a vague reference only hardly worth looking at hence why we needed the paper charts legally.
