Re: Chart Data

[Bob Deep <bobd@cssgroup.com>]

"Curtis L. Olson" wrote:
> 
> Bob Deep writes:
> > I found this data for a lot of airports online...
> >
> > I was loking for the data the NOAA Uses to generate their Sectional maps
> > which would include navaids, landmarks, radio frequencies and
> > such...
> 
> The url I listed earlier includes vor and ndb type navaids.  That
> should help get you part of the way.  If you find data for landmarks,
> radio towers, building, and that sort of stuff let me know.  I'd like
> to be able to incorporate these things into the flight gear simulator.
> 
> > The purpose was to generate sectionals on the fly from this data to
> > achive a moving map display with various bells and wistles... (Like
> > being able to hook up a GPS and plot flight path and planned course
> > information... Hit a button and get local radio frequencies, closest
> > airport etc...)
> 
> That sounds like a handy tool.  Flight Gear can already output the GPS
> data via a serial port.  This might be useful in the code development
> / debugging phase so you don't have to haul your computer and
> development environment around. :-)


Yea that was the idea actually... I was planning to use flight gear as
the driver and validation enviroment before I actually went up and got
lost in an airplane...  I figured, that if I could get the program smoth
enough, you could incorparate it into flight gear as an add on too...

Perhaps it would be easier to do the IFR end of things first? The charts
are much simpler as they avoid all the landscape and visual landmarks
you find on a sectional.

I know the data exists somewhere as Jepson markets a product that is a
moving map display.. (I think that is what I saw on their web site
anyway..)  I also figure that for the US, this data must somehow be
obtained from the FAA or at least coordinated by them and thus should be
available at a reasonable cost....  By now it has to be in electronic
form of some kind... Well don't you think?

Oh.. And about flight gear...  What's the status of nav aids and their
displays?  I see a lot of effort going into rendering the landscape but
I don't see much on this front...  Blows M$ Flight away by a long shot
though...  I might be interasted in helping out on that front.... 
Starting with VOR's and NDB's, then moving on to DME, localizers,
glideslopes and markers..  If I get real good, we could add HSI's,
monitor audio and stuff like that...

As soon as I get my linux box back to a stable condition after my
recient hardware upgrade, I plan to build a copy of flight gear and give
it a try.  Right now, the hardware is not stable and the RMA process is
taking way too long...

Happy landings...

-= bob =-
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