An overview of the Cartography toolset

The Nautical toolbox's Cartography toolset provides tools that can be used to finish a nautical chart for final production. These tools allow you to generate cartographic data for your charts.

Tools in the Cartography toolset

Tool	Description
Bubble Up	Transfers Quality of Position (QUAPOS) attribution, from the primitive to the feature, to symbolize features based on the QUAPOS attribute value. Features are split where the primitive attribution changes, and the QUAPOS values are then copied to the affected features.
Calculate Symbology	Calculates representation symbology and field labels for nautical charts.
Chart Automation	Runs selected chart-finishing processes on a production database with the Nautical Chart schema. Processes include adding layers to the TOC, generating cartographic limits, creating grids and graticules, converting labels to annotation, calculating symbology, and masking annotation.
Create ZOC Diagram	Automates the creation of a Zone of Confidence (ZOC) diagram. These diagrams allow mariners to assess the quality of the hydrographic data from which the chart was compiled. Processes are run on a production database with the Nautical Chart schema and include adding layers to the table of contents, creating grids and graticules, creating category of zone of confidence in data (CATZOC) outlines, adding land area (LNDARE) features, and setting symbology.
Generate Annotation Masks	Generates polygon masks for annotation features that intersect other polyline features. This tool supports nautical cartographic workflows that require masking based on geographic coincidence to specified input features. The specified input features (those that intersect the input annotation features) are polylines from the ArcGIS Maritime data model or other sources.
Generate Cartographic Limits	Converts polygon features to polylines and removes all segments coincident with the erase features. It is most often used to remove the outline of coincident features along a coastline or neatline, improving the cartographic display of digital and hard-copy nautical charts in the following manner: Establish a seaward limit of features coincident to a coastline. Reduce the number of features rendered on a chart. Decrease drawing and export times of nautical products.
Generate Light Sector	Creates light sector features based on a specified point feature class. Light sectors typically appear on nautical charts and depict the distance a light can be seen from its source. Light sectors are based on light features in the AidsToNavigationP feature class in the ArcGIS Maritime.