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I'm buying your sectionals for a year.
Not long ago, in rec.aviation.student,
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....com&frame=off I learned that the FAA is now selling scanned sectional chart DVDs. http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ctional_Raster At over $300/year for each of the East and West sets, it sounded like many potential users wouldn't get to touch them. That would be a shame. I've wanted the data for a long time too, so I decided to get it and make it available to everyone. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ I'm hoping to provide a bunch of tools to manipulate these (and other) data sets, but that'll take awhile so I'm offering the raw data for now. I'll probably move it around later, but I'll make sure it's easy to find. Note that the East and West data sets only take 2.7GB, so even with the Alaska set, a single DVD has plenty of space for all of this (and the ATA-100 data and an operating system...). Is anyone interested in DVDs like that? I'm thinking that I'll donate these DVDs to Purdue. The Computer Society there makes copies of various CDs as a fund raiser and I'd try to get them to start making DVDs of these data sets if people would pay enough to make it worthwhile. I'll try to get some tools going soon. I'll also be configuring to allow other people to write their own tools on my server and access everything remotely through XML-RPC. Enjoy! --kyler |
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Kyler Laird writes:
I've wanted the data for a long time too, so I decided to get it and make it available to everyone. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ Very nice -- I hope you don't get burned up on the bandwidth because of your generosity. All the best, David |
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In rec.aviation.student Kyler Laird wrote:
I learned that the FAA is now selling scanned sectional chart DVDs. .... I've wanted the data for a long time too, so I decided to get it and make it available to everyone. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ *boggle* I'm not sure which is more shocking - that the FAA would sell scanned sectionals at all or that somebody would put them up for free download. THANK YOU! If you are at all worried about the bandwidth, you might want to set up BitTorrent on your server: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ Regards, Boris |
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Borislav Deianov writes:
*boggle* I'm not sure which is more shocking - that the FAA would sell scanned sectionals at all or that somebody would put them up for free download. Neither should be shocking. Both should be *expected*. We (taxpayers) pay for this data collection, right? THANK YOU! You're welcome. I'll be thrilled if people find it useful. BTW, I decided to finally move the ATA-100 data and my old (ug, Perl) interface over to the same server. http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/ATA-100/ I find that data to be almost as interesting as the sectionals but I think it's really going to get interesting when they're combined. If you are at all worried about the bandwidth, you might want to set up BitTorrent on your server: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/ Thank you for the suggestion. BitTorrent is great and, of course, anyone is welcome to inject this data into it, but I hope some thought will go into some sort of versioning so that updates will easily propagate. It shouldn't be necessary though. I got this server with the intent of serving up useful stuff like this without worrying about bandwidth usage (as I do with my other colo). plug This one is hosted at FDC Servers. http://www.fdcservers.net/dedicated.html The bandwidth is "unmetered." If it does bog down, I'll try to upgrade to a faster plan. /plug Seriously...enjoy! No worries. --kyler |
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Kyler Laird writes:
*boggle* I'm not sure which is more shocking - that the FAA would sell scanned sectionals at all or that somebody would put them up for free download. Neither should be shocking. Both should be *expected*. We (taxpayers) pay for this data collection, right? We taxpayers in the rest of the world also pay for our governments' geodata collection, but we see precious little of the result unless we pay a lot of money. I know that we non-Americans don't always have nice things to say about your country, but I think this is one area where the U.S. is decades ahead of the rest of the world. For example, my handrolled Canadian GPS airport and navaid database comes from U.S. DAFIF data, since the U.S. publishes *far* more free data for Canada than the Canadian government does. The new 3 arcsecond SRTM elevation data coming out is more than adequate for a real-life, worldwide aviation terrain-avoidance system (or will be, once it's all been checked), and the U.S. government is also releasing it for free. I could go on and on, but I try not to gush online. All the best, David |
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HA! Won't Boeing/Jepp love that. The industry needs the competition,
but we might hear about Kyler's brakes failing while he drives around a slippery mountain curve one day! On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 01:08:26 GMT, Kyler Laird wrote: Not long ago, in rec.aviation.student, http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....com&frame=off I learned that the FAA is now selling scanned sectional chart DVDs. http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ctional_Raster At over $300/year for each of the East and West sets, it sounded like many potential users wouldn't get to touch them. That would be a shame. I've wanted the data for a long time too, so I decided to get it and make it available to everyone. http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA_sectionals/ I'm hoping to provide a bunch of tools to manipulate these (and other) data sets, but that'll take awhile so I'm offering the raw data for now. I'll probably move it around later, but I'll make sure it's easy to find. Note that the East and West data sets only take 2.7GB, so even with the Alaska set, a single DVD has plenty of space for all of this (and the ATA-100 data and an operating system...). Is anyone interested in DVDs like that? I'm thinking that I'll donate these DVDs to Purdue. The Computer Society there makes copies of various CDs as a fund raiser and I'd try to get them to start making DVDs of these data sets if people would pay enough to make it worthwhile. I'll try to get some tools going soon. I'll also be configuring to allow other people to write their own tools on my server and access everything remotely through XML-RPC. Enjoy! --kyler |
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Stu Gotts writes:
HA! Won't Boeing/Jepp love that. The industry needs the competition, but we might hear about Kyler's brakes failing while he drives around a slippery mountain curve one day! Another good reason for me to stay in Indiana... --kyler |
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Thank You Sir. Imagine, up to date safety information for free. What a
concept. If you work out something for next year, I'll pony up my share. Al Gerharter "Kyler Laird" wrote in message ... Stu Gotts writes: HA! Won't Boeing/Jepp love that. The industry needs the competition, but we might hear about Kyler's brakes failing while he drives around a slippery mountain curve one day! Another good reason for me to stay in Indiana... --kyler |
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Nice of you.
Unless you are willing to provide it to us free for years to come, here is my thought: Get a group of people and have have share the cost of one subscription. Burn copied CDs and mail them all. This could save individuals' cost as low as 5 bucks instead of 700 bucks a year. Toks |
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Now, if only we could get the vector data. That could make the files a
lot smaller and make it easier to write software to process the data. You could do things like display only airports with long runways or only private airports, or have it not display Victor airways or MOAs -- that'd make certain aspects of it easier to read. Matthew F. G. Kyler Laird wrote: Not long ago, in rec.aviation.student, http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e....com&frame=off I learned that the FAA is now selling scanned sectional chart DVDs. http://www.naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xm...ctional_Raster |
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