Transas TX-97 Charts

Transas provides “one-stop” shop solutions, offering a complete range of official and non-official electronic charts. Transas has been producing electronic vector charts since 1990. Numbering more than 10 000 charts, the Transas collection has been created under the license from the State Geodetic Inspection of Russia, on approval of the Russian Federation Chief Administration of Hydrography and Oceanography and Hydrographic Offices (HO) of other countries. The Transas electronic chart database provides world-wide coverage and is updated with Notices to Mariners issued by HO’s of different countries. Since the year 2000, Transas has been an official and exclusive distributor of the Russian Federation Chief Administration of Hydrography and Oceanography for S-57 charts. Since 2004 Transas is an official distributor of charts in SENC (System Electronic Navigation Charts) format from the world main ENC providers: IC-ENC and PRIMAR Stavanger.

Transas TX-97 Charts

Transas TX-97 Electronic Vector Charts are produced from paper chart data published by all the major national Hydrographic Offices, all digitised with the highest quality and great level of accuracy. The digitising process fully complies with international quality standards set out by ISO-2000:9001. The Transas TX-97 chart database provides world-wide coverage and is updated with Notices to Mariners issued by Hydrographic Organizations of different countries.

Advantages

• World-wide coverage.
• High data presentation accuracy.
• Scales from 1:100 to 1:200 000 000.
• Exhaustive information on chart objects (lighthouses, buoys, ports of call, etc.).

Compliance

The quality of Transas’ digitising technology, testing and updating service is approved by the Russian Federation Chief Administration of Hydrography and Oceanography and is confirmed by the electronic chart production license issued by the Federal Geodetic and Cartography Service of Russia. An inspection of the Transas database by the Russian Federation Chief Administration of Hydrography and Oceanography in 2003 showed that the fullness of data and accuracy of geographic coordinates of objects complied with ECS requirements made effective by the Russian Federation Department of Marine Transport from 1 September 1994.

Use

The Transas database should be used together with updated paper nautical chart. The Russian Federation Chief Administration of Hydrography and Oceanography concluded that such combination will dramatically improve safety of navigation.