> > I have encountered a slight problem with fix.dat, namely multiple > > instances of entries in the range of "CATnn"... > > I have indeed found other duplicates in the last DAFIF cycle released in > the public domain. When I get back to the computer hosting the database > where I keep fixes, I can check these.
My suspicion is that somewhere the names are six (or more) characters long, and that they got truncated somewhere along the line. I am thinking this because numbered series always seem to start with ZZZ01, then ZZZ02, etc. The CATnn series starts with CAT00, as if it was (at one point CAT100 (and the '1' got left off). Simply a hypothisis... > > I am curious (a) how this came to be, and (b) what I can do to rectify > > it... > > With my database and a PERL script, I retrieve all fixes (or NDBs or > VORs) with the same name and by using great circle navigation routines, > I select the one closest to the current point. I cheated, and changed the names of the Latin-American CATnn series to CAT1nn. FGFS seeems to accept 6-character fixes just fine, so I'm going with this until a real 'fix' comes down the pike... GKP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
