RE: Snapshot of US National Airspace Data CD-ROM

["Norman Vine" <nhv@cape.com>]

John C. Peterson writes:
>
>   I received my copy of the (US) National Airspace Data CD-ROM last
>week. For those that were interested in it, here is a little snapshot
>of what is on it...
>
>   To keep the work involved to the minimum, my plan is to write new
>awk scripts to generate intermediate files with "colon separated"
>fields, similar to the old "comma separated" ones. I looked at the
>awk scripts that were used to generate the old comma separated files
>and quickly concluded that "," is a bad choice for a field separator.

FWIW
I have found a bar '|' better then a colon ':' 
as a separator when dealing with geographic 
data in that often a colon is used as in.  

degree : minute : second 

Norman Vine


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