Ancient Marine Maps (ARCHIVES)
Description
The SHOM makes available in digital form its archives of old nautical charts published since 1822 and no longer used for navigation.
It is therefore several thousand documents, mostly in black and white, then in colors from the 1970s.
Note: No nautical chart currently in force is proposed here. Moreover, as these documents are obsolete, they should not be used for maritime navigation.
### Several editions available:
For the same card number, several editions may be offered:
- Publication or first edition;
- One or more intermediate edition(s);
- Editing when it is deleted.
### Formats:
The documents are distributed as an image in JPEG2000 format. The software used by SHOM is Kakadu
Only a few programs can play JPEG2000 files. Among those commonly used and free IfranView, Gimp, safari..., the SHOM uses and advocates the free visualization software associated with Kakadu Software ([www.kakadusoftware.com](http://kakadusoftware.com/)) kdu_show. It can be accessed at the following links:
- for 32-bit Windows: [here](http://kakadusoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/KDU78_Demo_Apps_for_Win32_160226.msi_.zip)
- for Mac: [here](http://kakadusoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/KDU78_Demo_Apps_for_OSX1011_160322.dmg_.zip)
JPEG2000 files are very easy to use with the free IGNMap software ([http://ignmap.ign.fr/](http://ignmap.ign.fr/)).
The image is also accompanied by
- A metadata file in xml format containing information about the document;
- A thumbnail image in png format;
- An gml file providing the general geographical coverage of the map.
These cards are
- available at http://data.shom.fr and http://diffusion.shom.fr
- downloadable via the attached table and at http://data.shom.fr and http://diffusion.shom.fr.
Resources
| Name |
Format |
Description |
Link |
|
54 |
|
https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/45eb2b58-1d08-444c-a72a-b087af1e3c76 |
Tags
- archives
- cartes
- cartes-marines-anciennes
- maritimes