The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with surveying the nation's navigable waters to help keep mariners off the rocks and out of the shallows, will cease ...

There are two major standard systems for paper in use around the world: a United States standard, based on traditional paper measurements in inches, and an international standard, which is based on ...

Earlier this year, Margie Dana asked me to comment on Directed Buys. You can read what I said by clicking here. This led me into a discussion of customer supplied paper, a close cousin to directed ...

Mariners have relied upon paper charts supplied by the UKHO for nearly 400 years – but that might soon be coming to an end (Credit: UK Hydrographic Office) The world's gone digital and yet many ...

Transparency paper or film is a type of thin plastic sheet. Photocopy or print on this paper to produce clear sheets for presentation booklets or transparencies for use on an overhead projector.

The world's gone digital and yet many professions and industries still rely on paper every day. When will they scrunch up and toss away the last page? For 400 years British hydrographers have made ...