Re: Jeppesen database

[John Peterson <jaypee@netcom.com>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 1999 at 01:37:46PM -0800, Brian Lloyd wrote:
> Dave Bridgham <dab@froghouse.org> (also on this list) and I purchased the
> sample data kit from Jeppesen for their database.  This kit contains a
> rather large book of all the record formats and sample data of all the
> record types on floppy.  It is enough to allow you to write and test
> software that will accept the Jeppesen data as input.  As I recall, it was
> about $150(US) for the kit.
> 

   Very interesting. I must say I'm really quite surprised that they
take such an "open" attitude towards reading the data. Not a slam on
Jeppesen in any way, but it seems like every company on earth has tried
to restrict the use of their products in every *possible* legal and
technical way (Win Printers and Win Modems for example, to these
companies the concept of "fair use" means "no use). Very refreshing
really...

   As far as conversion software goes, I wrote avdbtools (the package
used to create the fplan databases) in plain ol' C. I know people have
their favorites, but C worked just fine. The bulk of it came together
in just a couple evenings.

-- 
 ___|___  | John C. Peterson, KD6EKQ | Try Linux for Intel x86, because
  -(*)-   | mailto:jaypee@netcom.com | a PC is a terrible thing to waste!
  o/ \o   | San Diego, CA   U.S.A    | See http://www.linux.org/ for info
-
Archives of linux-aviation: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/linux-aviation/
To unsubscribe: send the command "unsubscribe linux-aviation" in the body
of a mail message to <Majordomo@mail.nl.linux.org>.