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As you have mentioned in the comments, your old and new CAD files do not overlap, when imported in ArcGIS. This means, that they do not have a consistent coordinate system.
You could either correct them in AutoCAD, which is a better option, since their topology will be maintained, or you could import them into a geodatabase, and then use Spatial Adjustment ...
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Something to keep in mind is that portolan chart navigation maps like Piri Reis don't a have coordinate system, rather they are several different local coordinate systems munged together -- each one of the rosettas or compass rose like symbols is a projection source of origin, loosely speaking.
So you can't just georeference the image in the usual GIS way ...
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There is a raster version of the Map
You can digitise from this source for personal use.
KMZ
http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile12068/Piri-Reis-Map.htm
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The actual territorial sea boundary is maintained by NOAA and distributed here: http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/csdl/mbound.htm
You may need to contact the Chief Geographer for NOAA to see if the current baseline is available in a format you need; as I didn't find a nice packaged link either.
I was working in this area a number of years ago, and would ...
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This best resource for publicly available data is going to be from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, but that isn't going to cover all the altitudes you are looking for. NREL wind data page
NREL's data is based on a model developed by AWS Truepower, which sells a more comprehensive dataset, but I don't know if it will cover everything you need. AWS ...
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