Where to find?

[Kondor77]

Hi guys, I've been trying to find on Google (fruitlessly) any real depth charts to help me navigate in SHIII instead of having to use the navigator each time I'm not sure.

I know the map in game is 'color coded' but I would like to have a real depth map next to me just incase :)

So if any of you have any links, etc. I'd appreciate it :|\

[Kondor77]

:ahoy:

Bump :)

[don1reed]

you could try-:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/tour/nautic.html

or,

if you still have a copy of SHII. It's chart system told Geo coords/Kreigsmarine grid, and soundings.

[Kondor77]

Thanks, what I am going to try and do is see if in my local college library they have some maps I could photocopy...maybe :up:

[Sawdust]

Nautical depth charts are sometimes called bathymetric charts if that helps in your search.

[Stymnus]

I'd say that the only concern would be that the depth is actually what it ought to be...which means it will matter what the devs used for their depths...a real chart, or that color-coded map, with randomness thrown in..?

Anyone know just how accurate the bottom is mapped? Obviously past a thousand meters it doesn't matter, nor likely even past five or six hundred...

[Kpt. Lehmann]

It appears to be rather accurate. (I wouldn't know about the Mediterranean as I haven't been there yet.)

I have a large bathymetric map of the north and south Atlantic that was included in the January 1990 issue of National Geographic magazine.

It is by no means an official nautical navigation map but it IS highly detailed, including most of the stock port cities in SH3. It has depth markings in meters at MANY locations and it is a Mercator projection map.

You might be able to find that issue of National Geographic on Ebay pretty cheaply.

Further info from map: "Sources of Ocean Floor Relief: General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO); U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office of Sounding Sheets of the North and South Atlantic Oceans"