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It's official, they've pulled the plug on DAFIF



 
 
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Old November 29th 05, 07:40 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default It's official, they've pulled the plug on DAFIF

The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) is the
only computer readable file of data about airports, navaids, waypoints and
airspace available to developers and users of free or cheap flight related
computer programs, or web sites. For a year now, we've been trying to
convince the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) to keep it
available, but we've lost.
http://www.nga.mil/NGASiteContent/St...CR/nga0517.pdf
"The electronic distribution of DAFIF over the World Wide Web (www) ...
will cease in October 2007."

Anybody got any ideas on how to replace this invaluable source? I thought
about setting up a Wiki-like site where people could edit and enter data
for their part of the world, and then have the data available in an
architecture neutral format (like maybe an extended GPX xml schema), but
I'm not sure I have the time to implement such an idea on my own, and I'm
not convinced that anybody would actually use it.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
Here in the US, we are so schizoid and deeply opposed to government
censorship that we insist on having unaccountable private parties
to do it instead. -- Bill Cole
 




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