We just sat there and watched what they experienced with our ENCs. And we had a group of our cartographers on our side and they got to interact with professional mariners. And this was the captain and the first mate in the one case from Alaska Tanker Company. They bring in a 1,200 foot crew carrier from Alaska into Long Beach. They had some real experience in using our charts. And there are a lot of things that mariners dont know about our charts that are frankly stupid. So our conclusion, our takeaway, was that in a lot of case our ENCs are really not that well suited for ECDIS. But our ENCs are fully encoded to meet standards. They are correct. But its the information content. And it turns out that the way people use our chart has really changed. And the information content that
We just sat there and watched what they experienced with our ENCs. And we had a group of our cartographers on our side and they got to interact with professional mariners. And this was the captain and the first mate in the one case from Alaska Tanker Company. They bring in a 1,200 foot crew carrier from Alaska into Long Beach. They had some real experience in using our charts. And there are a lot of things that mariners dont know about our charts that are frankly stupid. So our conclusion, our takeaway, was that in a lot of case our ENCs are really not that well suited for ECDIS. But our ENCs are fully encoded to meet standards. They are correct. But its the information content. And it turns out that the way people use our chart has really changed. And the information content that
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