[OSM-talk] Free aerentical data

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

I'm pretty sure someone already imported all the basic data for airport
locations around the world but there may be other info that's of interest
from this data set providing the licence on that data is compatible with
ours.

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Jukka Rahkonen
>Sent: 11 March 2008 8:49 AM
>To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-talk] Free aerentical data
>
>Hi,
>
>Just read from gdal-dev about this free and seemingly well organised data
>set.
>Could it be worth importing the most part of the airports in the world?
>Because
>of the new OGR driver it might be fairly easy technically.
>
>-Jukka Rahkonen-
>
>
>Even Roualt wrote:
>
>Folks,
>
>for those who are interested in aeronautics, I've just commited in SVN
>trunk a
>new OGR driver 'XPLANE' that can read aerantical data (airports, runways,
>taxiways, navigation aids, IFR intersections, airways)  from a text format
>used by the X-Plane and Flightgear flight simulators.
>
>A few links :
>http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/index.htm : Robin's aviation simulator data
>homepage.
>http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/FileDef.htm : Specification of the format.
>http://x-plane.org/home/robinp/AptNav200712XP861.zip : Free data.
>http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_xplane.html : Documentation of the driver.
>
>
>
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