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

[Brian Lloyd <brian@lloyd.com>]

At 09:25 AM 2/10/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Maybe, from the 2 posts so far, there IS very little interest, and most 
>of the downloads are simply curious. I don't think it either mean or nasty 
>to simply get a small group of genuinely interested people with a actual
>need and interest together, and split the costs, and legaly I might Add,
>distribute copies to everyone in that group and be done with it.

I am one of those sitting on the fence.  I was planning to use the Jeppesen
data for my experimentation since they provide a sample database
(incomplete but with examples of all the various record types) for testing.
 Jeppesen's data is the "cleanest", i.e. fewest errors in the DB.  I have
been told, second hand but by different consumers of the data for
commercial purposes, that the FAA data has a relatively high number of
errors and incorect data.

Yes, your data would be interesting but not as interesting as it might
otherwise be.  Who is verifying its correctness?  That is one of the
features of the Jeppesen data that makes it more attractive.  OTOH you pay
a fair bit for that "feature" as well.  

So I am still on the fence.


Brian Lloyd                                    Lucent Technologies
brian@lloyd.com                                3461 Robin Lane, Suite 1
http://www.livingston.com                      Cameron Park, CA  95682
+1.530.676.6513 - voice                        +1.530.676.3442 - fax

-
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>.