Solution to DAFIF data going away?

A friend's blog entry
(http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso...ing-databases/)
pointed me to Wikipedia's airport entries
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airports), and COPA's "Places to
Fly" page (http://www.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/index.php). And I got
to thinking that maybe this is a solution to my two biggest problems with
my navaid.com databases:
1. I'm missing data for smaller, non-militarily useful airports outside of
the US.
2. The source of data for the larger militarily useful airports outside
the US, DAFIF, is going away in a few months (read
http://navaid.com/dafif.html for more details).

And I got to thinking that a massive collaboration could be possible - I'd
put up the DAFIF data on a web site, and people could edit and update the
data that's there, and they could add the airports from their local
country that isn't there. I would make the data available to anybody who
currently uses DAFIF and FAA data the way I do, to help your fellow pilots
plan and fly and log and simulate.

What do you think? Would it work?

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"As in the thronged and the lighted ways,/so in the dark and the desert
they stand,/Wary and watchful all their days/that their brethren's days
may be long in the land." - Rudyard Kipling, "The Sons of Martha"

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 03:31:47 +0000 (UTC),
(Paul Tomblin) wrote:

A friend's blog entry
(http://www.megginson.com/blogs/lahso...ing-databases/)
pointed me to Wikipedia's airport entries
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Airports), and COPA's "Places to
Fly" page (http://www.copanational.org/PlacesToFly/index.php). And I got
to thinking that maybe this is a solution to my two biggest problems with
my navaid.com databases:
1. I'm missing data for smaller, non-militarily useful airports outside of
the US.
2. The source of data for the larger militarily useful airports outside
the US, DAFIF, is going away in a few months (read
http://navaid.com/dafif.html for more details).

And I got to thinking that a massive collaboration could be possible - I'd
put up the DAFIF data on a web site, and people could edit and update the
data that's there, and they could add the airports from their local
country that isn't there. I would make the data available to anybody who
currently uses DAFIF and FAA data the way I do, to help your fellow pilots
plan and fly and log and simulate.

What do you think? Would it work?

Have you seen http://www.pocketfms.com/ ?
That's how they solve the problem.

David