Services and electrical

Reading a nautical chart — datums, distances, light characters and buoyage

A nautical chart carries three datums at once: depths from the lowest water, clearances from the highest, and light heights from the mean — each taken at its worst case

This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.

Notes in the source (in Japanese)

Source (YAML)

examples/gallery/223-海図の読み方.zumen.yaml

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