[Alberg30] NOAA - Free Charts and Readers

[Robert Kirk]

Yes, the charts are free, but you have to go to one of the commercial 
licensees to buy a program that will read & manipulate them.  Several of 
the companies offer free "viewers" which are crippleware versions of their 
$$ programs and don't allow you full capability.

It's a little bothersome that the charts which were generated with taxpayer 
money require you buy a commercial program to use them. I prefer the hard 
copy, anyway.

It's much like the weather data that NOAA generates. Their progs go only to 
commercial services that will allow you to read some of the  products 
"free" on a time delay basis. For full service you must pay them. Notice 
that most of the weather maps you see on the net are from Intellicast or 
Weather.Com.

Bob Kirk
Isobar #181

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