RE: US National Airspace Data CD-ROM - ATA-120

["Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>]

I'll be happy to host them on www.unixtools.org.

As far as copyright goes, my understanding (IANAL) is that no federal
document can be copywritten. Some legislation or something prevents it. But
I may be wrong. 

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John C. Peterson [mailto:jaypee@netcom.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 1:31 PM
> To: linux-aviation@nl.linux.org
> Subject: Re: US National Airspace Data CD-ROM - ATA-120
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:06:48PM -0700, D.F.S. wrote:
> > So did we ever come up with a way and place to post this on the 
> > web, ftp site or at the very least distribute it within the list?
> > 
> > I'll order the CD if necessary.
> > 
>     I think we are waiting for someone to offer to provide the
> resources required. The files are way too large to post to the
> list, we would need an http or ftp server with good connectivity.
> If the files are compressed with "gzip -9", the storage resources
> required are about 14 Mb, with "bzip2 -9" about 8 Mb.  (I posted a
> detailed summary of various commpression methods on Wed, Dec 15,
> 1999).
> 
>     I e-mailed the woman at the FAA about the copyright status
> of the data. The response I got was not very clear, and I have been
> planning to call her by phone but haven't got around to it quite
> yet as she is 3 time zones away and has rather odd hours...
> 
> John
> 
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