Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread Kip Macy
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:36:19 +1100, Nick Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I must have missed it, sorry about that. Oh yeah, 2 months ago was exam > > time, I stopped reading the list for a few weeks. > > No harm done. We're all unhappy, of course, but it's hard for > non-Americans like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:38:13 -0500, David wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ..one way is point .gov and .com people to "if someone flies into an > > Aussiestani or Canuckistani tower, is it jihad, and who get

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-13 Thread David Megginson
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:27:00 +0100, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ..one way is point .gov and .com people to "if someone flies into an > Aussiestani or Canuckistani tower, is it jihad, and who get's sued? That doesn't work so well outside of the U.S., because other countries don't hav

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 19:03:58 -0500, Chris wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What I didn't see was some kind of notification about an official > comment period. Normally, when a policy change takes place, the > first announcement in the FR mentions a period during which comments > can be ma

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread Chris Metzler
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:34:19 -0500 David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Originally, the excuse for pulling DAFIF was the Australian > government's attempt to sue Jeppesen for royalties on Australian aero > data, or something similar. Now, the reason is simply national > security. I wond

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-12 Thread David Megginson
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 10:36:19 +1100, Nick Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I must have missed it, sorry about that. Oh yeah, 2 months ago was exam > time, I stopped reading the list for a few weeks. No harm done. We're all unhappy, of course, but it's hard for non-Americans like me to compla

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-11 Thread Nick Coleman
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:41:36 -0500 > From: David Megginson > Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to > Public > On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:06:56 +0200, Paul Surgeon wrote: > > I'm surprised someone else hasn't commented on th

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-11 Thread David Megginson
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:18:36 +0100, Erik Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FlightGear has used the Peel database for quite some time (always?) and > just recently (one or two years ago) Robin started to use DAFIF. Prior > to that we only had data contributed by volunteers. Now we have a better >

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-11 Thread Erik Hofman
Paul Surgeon wrote: I'm surprised someone else hasn't commented on this yet. Losing DAFIF access will be a pretty big blow to X-Plane and FlightGear. The DAFIF data is the primary source of global airports and navaid data that we use in FlightGear. It is not the only source of info but it is the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-10 Thread David Megginson
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 01:06:56 +0200, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm surprised someone else hasn't commented on this yet. We had a discussion a couple of months ago, when the topic first came up. All the best, David -- http://www.megginson.com/

Re: [Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-10 Thread Paul Surgeon
On Friday, 10 December 2004 00:57, Nick Coleman wrote: > The DoD is going to stop making DAFIF available to the public. > > I don't know TerraGear at all, but I thought I'd give a heads up just in > case it uses it. I'm surprised someone else hasn't commented on this yet. Losing DAFIF access will

[Flightgear-devel] DAFIF Will No Longer Be Available to Public

2004-12-09 Thread Nick Coleman
The DoD is going to stop making DAFIF available to the public. and I don't know TerraGear at all, but I thought I'd give a heads