Re: Subscription to NASD CD-ROM (was: embedded ...)

["Curtis L. Olson" <curt@me.umn.edu>]

Bob_Deep writes:
> How about letting expired data live somewhere so it can be had for free?
> 
> Seems this would encourage application development by allowing
> developers access to the data for testing.

This sounds like a reasonable suggestion.

> It also would allow some of the open source flight simulators access
> to reasonable data to use..  In fact, have we asked anybody from
> those groups if they would be interested in the data and would help
> pay for it?

As a representative of the Flight Gear project (www.flightgear.org) I
will just say that I have followed this whole discussion, but I just
don't have the time at the moment to evaluate a new data source.  We
do have an existing source that works fine for now.  But I do think
that in the future it would be nice to be able to have the absolute
latest and most correct data.

Having expired data available would be nice so that when I do
eventually find the time, I could grab a copy and work on my tools to
parse the format.  Once the support mechanism is in place, then I
would be willing to chip in my fair share for the current data.

If this ends up being a "now or never" proposition, someone let me
know and I could ask in the flight gear circles if any one would be
willing to fund flight gear's share of the cd subscription cost.

Regards,

Curt.
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Curtis Olson   University of MN, ME Dept.       Flight Gear Project
Twin Cities    curt@me.umn.edu                  curt@flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt   http://www.flightgear.org
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