Peter Brown wrote: > On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Martin Spott wrote: >> BTW, feel free to use this service if your're looking for slightly more >> complete airfield data: >> >> >> http://mapserver.flightgear.org/ms?Service=WFS&Version=1.0.0&request=GetFeature&Typename=apt_airfield&MaxFeatures=1&Filter=<Filter><PropertyIsEqualTo><PropertyName>icao</PropertyName><Literal>KBTV</Literal></PropertyIsEqualTo></Filter>
> I have no reason to take it out, but I see no reason to not compile a > list of approach plate data that the mpmap can retrieve usable data > from either, if you don't want to add it to the navaids file. > Is there any reason not to? Yup, as already said, the navaid file is meant to carry unambiguous data (by design), while magnetic heading depends on the date and is therefore unsuitable for the given purpose. This is not about personal preferences, this is about the design of a file format, a written spec is available here: http://data.x-plane.com/file_specs/XP%20NAV810%20Spec.pdf If you "see no reason to not compile a list of approach plate data that the mpmap can retrieve usable data from", feel free to go ahead ;-) In fact, my primary target is to maintain this database of airfield-, navaid- and a lot of other datasets in a 'generic' representation which is suitable for automated processing, but my domain is not to provide neat user interfaces (others are, apparently, more skilled to do that). People, including those who are running MPMap servers, are invited to use it, if it fits their needs, various formats are available (GML, GeoJSON and the like). If you're in need of a human-readable one-shot database table dump, please let me know. Cheers, Martin. -- Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
