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bruce343434today at 2:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

Is there a nautical map equivalent of osm or organic maps? One that emphasizes waterways by drawing them thicker when zoomed out like regular maps draw roads thicker? Plan routes over the water? Even google maps lacks a nautical layer.


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s3krittoday at 7:51 PM

it depends what type of waterways you’re after. for the sea, https://map.openseamap.org/ is very good (but no route planning sadly - for that you’d need opencpn and some charts obtained. For inland waterways i can only speak for the English canals, for which i recommend https://opencanalmap.uk/ which uses data from both OSM and the Canal and River Trust. Again, sadly no route planning but for that I use https://canalplan.org.uk/

bmitch3020today at 3:01 PM

The OSS tool for nautical charts is OpenCPN.

shiandowtoday at 2:56 PM

OsmAnd has a nautical map plugin you can enable.

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