Ivan, On 11/08/10 18:52, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: > El día Wednesday 11 August 2010 18:25:39, Julio Costa Zambelli dijo: >> We talked about an OpenAeroMap with Ivan Sanchez back in Amsterdam >> (SoTM2009), > > And I've still got the idea somewhere in my notebooks. I haven't forgotten > about that :-) > > I do think that OSM-derived aerial navigational charts are worth it, but we > need to get in touch with the people who would actually use it. How do we > reach out to GPS-hungry airplane pilots?
well, here, I'm one of them :) and actually there are quite a few of us even in the humble country of Hungary. also, please note that there are a number of such software solutions available already for the iPhone and Android, for which one has to pay. the 'official' Garmin & similar branded products are extremely expensive, so there is a clear market gap here that can be filled with generic GPS-enabled smart phones. > Approach charts are tricky, because they depend on each airport's > configuration, which depends on the wind direction. Would make a fun case for > dual caching, though :-) as said in my previous e-mail, each airport has a number of approach charts, only one of which makes sense to show at any one time. also, there is usually a taxi chart for when the plane is already on the ground. for example, look here for charts for the aiport of Pula, Croatia: http://www.airport-pula.hr/component/content/article/71.html , e.g. arrival charts in this rar file: http://lin7.mojsite.com/~airport/templates/airport/AIP/LDPL%20Arrivals.rar or also the docking chart, etc. thus airports can only be mapped if there is a possibility to have several maps for a small region. then again, at first point just creating wider area VFR airspace maps, with TMA airspace regions, restricted regions, waypoints, VOR/NDB navigation points would be already a great start. tackle the airport issue later :) Akos _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
