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

["A. Reichert" <alan@reichertech.com>]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, John C. Peterson wrote:

> 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 had offered resources back then, assuming size was not too large.  I
don't think this size will be a problem (192K connection), but I see other
offers with a lot better bandwidth.  If other offers fall through for some
reason, and the copyright issue turns out to be a non-issue, the offer
still stands.

>     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

[chomp]

- Alan

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