Re: Airport and Navaid data for countries other than the US?

[Sid Boyce <szb50@amdahl.com>]

John Peterson wrote:
> 
>    I've been getting inquiries from users that live outside of the USA
> if there are any plans for providing fplan compatible databases (airport
> and navaid) for areas outside the USA. The answer is yes, but I'm
> beginning to wonder if it will be possible.
>
	There is nothing available to download as far as I know, I've searched
extensively. Looking at the World file the author of "icao" generated
for Germany, it would be a major task to write such files and maintain
them.
	One of our club members had his Garmin GPS90 reprogrammed to include a
database for France in addition to the standard UK database that comes
pre-installed. I know he sent it away to be done, but I shall have to
check to find out if the databases can be purchased and what format they
may be in. I have never seen anything other than plug-ins for Flight-Sim
advertised, whether they are in readable format or no I have yet to find
out.

	I tried to get gpsd up and running, but it didn't understand what a
GPS90 was and I never got back to playing with it. I was wondering if
gpsd/gpsclient could be used to suck the databases down to Linux or
whether it could only get at programmed-in route information for
download and upload. 
Regards
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