Familiar nautical chart base map, low cost and ready for immediate use in GIS

Raster Charts is derived from raster based material obtained under licence from the UK and other Hydrographic Offices which provides familiarity for users who work with Nautical charts.

The data is supplied in GeoTIFF format for easy loading and use in GIS. They provide an immediate background which is ready symbolised. They are available as individual charts for different geographic areas at discrete scale levels. No additional software is required – they can be opened in any image viewer. Raster Charts are available worldwide depending on permissions granted by contributing nations.

Sample data is available from our Downloads page.

If you require more control over the data displayed and feature attributes then consider our Marine Themes vector product.

We have demos available for all our web-enabled data products, find them using the link below.

Product Demos

Please visit our Distributors page for further information on where to access the datasets.

View Raster Charts Metadata on the MEDIN portal or visit our Downloads page for XML or CSV format files