I'm buying your sectionals for a year.

"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
...
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/

Thanks Kyler!

Are the charts available on the DVD's only the sectionals or are TAC and WAC
(charts) available too? It would be nice if the Naco/FAA would supply all
available charts and publications in digital/downloadable form.

"Sven" wrote in message news:U4Xtb.216797$HS4.1890863@attbi_s01...
"Kyler Laird" wrote in message
...
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/

Thanks Kyler!

Are the charts available on the DVD's only the sectionals or are TAC and WAC
(charts) available too? It would be nice if the Naco/FAA would supply all
available charts and publications in digital/downloadable form.

Hmm. I just wonder, why they say these are SCANNED charts? They are
not prepared in digital form before printing?

Just wondering...
--
Filip Zawadiak http://vyx.net
PP-ASEL

(Filip Zawadiak) writes:

Hmm. I just wonder, why they say these are SCANNED charts? They are
not prepared in digital form before printing?

That's my understanding. Amazing, isn't it?

I try to imagine the processes that go into maintaining and printing
these charts. I'm in awe.

Note that the scanned sectionals are guaranteed to have under two
pixels RMS error.

--kyler

Filip Zawadiak ) wrote:
: Hmm. I just wonder, why they say these are SCANNED charts? They are
: not prepared in digital form before printing?
That makes too much sense.

Anyone have any idea how the real charts are made? I'm guessing
they use some mapping/GIS program thats been around for ages (I'm
guessing grass or one of its offspring).

-tim
http://web.abnormal.com

"Sven" writes:

Thanks Kyler!

You're welcome.

Are the charts available on the DVD's only the sectionals or are TAC and WAC
(charts) available too?

TACs are there.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/...l-Area-Charts/

I'd like WACs too. We use the Howie Keefe VFR atlas a lot.

It would be nice if the Naco/FAA would supply all
available charts and publications in digital/downloadable form.

Indeed.

--kyler

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/

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular. How will people use these?
Maintain them in digital format and view on a laptop in the plane? Print
them as needed?

Has anyone printed a hard copy? How and where and how much?


R. Hubbell



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

Kyler, you rock!!! This is awsome. Thanks a million!

Now, who wants to buy my fuel for a year? ;-)

Ekim

If you were to print these raster files out at the same DPI that the
normal sectionals that we use are at, would the physical size be the
same, or bigger (or smaller)?

Matthew F. G.