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PSU Library's Maps Collection contains nautical charts published through
both the National Imagery & Mapping Agency (NIMA) and the
National Ocean Service (NOS), a branch of the NOAA. The
NOS prepares charts for areas of the United States and its territories;
NIMA prepares charts for all other parts of the world.
The
collection contains current and superseded editions of charts covering
Oregon, Washington,
and California and the latest edition
only of charts for all other parts of the country and world.
Maps are filed by chart number in Map Case 15.
INDEXES
Call Number & Location
National Imagery and Mapping Agency Nautical Charts and Publications: Public Sale
This catalog lists charts both numerically (on pp. 36-37) and geographically.
It is published bienially in the following 9 volumes:
Region 1: United States and Canada
Region 2: Central and South America and Antarctica
Region 3: Western Europe, Iceland, Greenland and the Arctic
Region 4: Scandinavia, Baltic and the former Soviet Union
Region 5: Western Africa and the Mediterranean
Region 6: Indian Ocean
Region 7: Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand
Region 8: Oceania
Region 9: East Asia
At the back of the catalog is a section entitled "Miscellaneous Charts and Publications," listing charts in the following series held by the Library:
- The World-General Nautical Charts
- The World-International Chart Series
C
55.440:
(MAP ROOM)
National Imagery & Mapping Agency Catalog of Maps, Charts, and Related Products, pt. 2--vol. I
MAP ROOM
Catalog of [Nautical] Charts and Publications
A series
of fold out index maps, issued in the following parts:
(MAP ROOM, READY REFERENCE)
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Nautical
Chart Symbols, Abbreviations, and Terms. Chart No.1: United
States of America
Descriptions
of current preferred U.S. symbols shown on charts of the NOS and NIMA.
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