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Nobeltec, the premier maker of PC-based charting software, is sharing its charts of the Cuban coast with Cuba Cruising Net. Unless there’s a Russian company out there doing the same, Nobeltec is alone and out front in its decision to map Cuba’s harbors. It is reassuring that a big company such as Nobeltec can time the market as badly as we have. Maybe they, too, were just tired of waiting.
Nobeltec, whose parent company is Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing, purchased the chart data from Canadian hydrographic authorities who, in turn, had bought them from the Cuban government. Cuba’s excellent hydrographic skills are believed to have been developed during their Cold War relationship with the Soviet Union. In any event, the data is excellent, and Nobeltec has put it to good use.
What is particularly good about Nobeltec’s charts are their high level of detail, rendered quite artistically. Why does this matter? If you are of the generations that grew up using paper charts, beautiful maps that they are, you will find comfort in Nobeltec’s traditional approach and sense of esthetics.
Our intent as we develop more information about Cuba’s harbors is to use Nobeltec’s charts as illustrations. They are lovely.
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