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

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@infoplane.com>]

Keith Brown writes:
> IMHO, you're out of luck. Think about the massive amount of data involved
> and the effort required to keep it correct and up to date. You're just not
> going to get that for free. If you wanted to write a flight planner that
> uses Jeppesen for example, you have two choices:
>
> a) write a commercial product and get a license deal to use NavData,
>    which of course means including this cost in the price of the
>    product
> b) write a free product and somehow wrangle a deal from
>    Jeppesen to make NavData available to users of the program on a
>    subscription basis (of course you'd have to get them to give you a
>    sample to develop with in the meantime)

Here's a possible c) Note this data is being continually added to and
updated, but the data sources are sometimes dubious so it is
definitely for simulation purposes and not for real flight planning.

Ummmm, hmmmm, I can't find the url at this second.  If someone's
actually interested I can look harder and/or email a recent copy.

Curt.
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