Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara

La Librairie Maritime Nautic Way is an authorized Shom distributor, and offers the complete catalog of charts and works of the SHOM (Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy).

Before choosing your nautical chart, it is interesting to know the particularities and differences between nautical charts.

Before choosing your navigation software, it is interesting to know the particularities and differences between the navigation software.

Shom raster digital charts are in geotiff format, with a resolution of 300 dpi. They are the image of paper nautical charts and meet the carriage requirements for nautical charts for pleasure craft less than 24 meters in length. For the other categories of vessels, they can only constitute an aid to navigation.

All nautical charts, paper or digital, are edited to order and benefit from the latest updates. In accordance with the provisions of Article L221-28 of the Consumer Code, the right of withdrawal cannot be exercised for the supply of goods likely to be obsolete quickly. These charts are neither taken back nor exchanged. Consequently, these orders are concluded definitively as soon as the order is placed by the Customer according to the methods specified in these GCS.

Following your order, we will send you a link via Wetransfer to your email to download your chart.

You can read Raster and ENC S57 charts with software like QGIS (Geographic Information System) and GlobalMapper (wave wave modeling). For S63 ENCs we have no information. This software is for cartography and not navigation.

2009 Shom article on nautical and computer cartography.

Compatibility of Shom raster Geotiff digital nautical charts with navigation software

* Compatible avec Windows XP, 7, 8 et 10.

Scannav : fonctionne sous PC Windows XP à Win10, tablette Windows avec interface tactile. Ne fonctionne pas sous MacOs en natif, mais fonctionne sans problème sous Mac via Parallels. Android : une version simplifiée existe et fonctionne avec les mêmes cartes SnMap. Ipad/Iphone : pas de version à ce jour.