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

[Bob_Deep <bobd@cssgroup.com>]

Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
> 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.

Let me guess.. Jeppeson copyrights the data and charges a hefty sum so
they can afford to buy the libility insurance and make a bit of
profit...

Some how, I seriously doubt there is much improvement in the data over
what the Federal Government releases.  Seems to me that if Jeppeson does
much more than reformat the data and clean up obvious errors, but they
would be on the hook for anything they may have changed.  I seriously
doubt Jeppeson has more accurate sources of data than the Feds, so the
data they generate will be no differant than the Fed's.

I'd bet, if we wrote a converter from the Fed data to the Jeppeson
format, you would have very few differances.

How about we write such a software tool?  For us poor folks who cannot
afford to pay Jeppeson for their data and whould be content running
tools with the Fed data.

It would be fun to see how many changes Jeppeson really makes, and if
their data is really more accurate.  

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