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Waypoint Generation Datasources Datasources The datasources I currently use for waypoint generation are: FAA The data CD. Has information on every public and private airport, navaid and other waypoint in the United States. Has very little outside of the US, except for off shore waypoints and some Carribbean Islands and US protectorates (like Wake Island), but what it has is detailed, frequently updated and fairly accurate. DAFIF The Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File, from the. Covers the entire world, with airports, navaids and other waypoints. Because this file is primarily intended for the use of the US Military, it doesn't cover airports that are too small to accomodate military aircraft. Unfortunately, NGA is withdrawing it, and so hasn't been updated after October 2006.
See for more details. Way-points.nl, a private collection of waypoints gathered for the benefit of GPS users. Back in 2002, I asked Peter Marinus for their airport waypoints, and he sent me the file.
It has a heck of a lot of airports that aren't in DAFIF, but with no supporting data (like altitude, frequencies and runways). Also, comparing waypoints against DAFIF and other sources proves that the data isn't always accurate, so it's only used to fill in airports that aren't available from other sources. I haven't updated it since 2002, and it probably isn't worth it.
France (Alfred) A private collection of waypoints. I'm not exactly sure where this collection comes from, but it was sent to me by Hermann Alfred in 2002. It contains airports, VORs, NDBs and VFR waypoints.
It seems to be fairly accurate, and it has elevations and radio frequencies. Used to fill in data that isn't available in DAFIF. Germany A private collection of waypoints. This one as updated very frequently for a while, but stopped.
The file has got airports, navaids and VFR waypoints, and the data for major airports compares well with DAFIF, but it's missing airport frequencies (but it has navaid frequencies) and runways. Australia A private collection of waypoints. This one was sent to me by Stewart Whitesidei in 2002. This one just classifies the points as 'Airport', 'Navaid' or 'VFR Waypoint', which is why I have a new type 'UNSPECIFIED NAVAID' in the type choice menu. The data for major airports compares well with DAFIF, but it's missing airport and navaid frequencies and runways. And some of the minor airports are completely wrong or imaginary, not showing up on Google Maps or Wikipedia.
Ontario A private collection of waypoints. This one was sent to me by Stefan Vorkoetter, and includes all airplane aerodromes in Ontario, Canada that are missing from the DAFIF data (i.e.
They're too small to land an F-16). Runway and frequency data is included. As well, there are VFR waypoints. The data was entered manually from the Canada Flight Supplement, so the possibility for errors exists.
Stefan updated a few times, but last updated in 2006. France (Delamare) A private collection of waypoints. I'm not exactly sure where this collection comes from, but it was sent to me by Georges Delarme in 2003. Contains airports and ultralight ports. It has many private airports. It has one frequency and some runway information for some airports.
Canada (Thompson) A private collection of waypoints. This one was sent to me by Vic Thompson in 2003, and includes airports in the Maritimes, Quebec, the Praries and Alberta, but only the ones that are missing from the DAFIF data. Runway and frequency data is included. The data was entered manually from the Canada Flight Supplement. Austria (Plonka) A private collection of waypoints.
This one was sent to me by Christian Plonka in 2003. It includes airports (with comm frequencies and runways) and VFR reporting points for Austria.
Netherlands (Vogelaar)) A private collection of waypoints. This one was sent to me by Hans Vogelaar in 2003. It includes airports (without comm frequencies and runways) and navaids for the Netherlands.
Gulf Platforms A private collection of waypoints, mostly oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico and reporting points used by helicopters operating there. This one was sent to me by Stan Gosnell in 2003. I found a couple of errors in the hospital and other on-shore data he included in the data file, so I left them out.
Mostly that was a duplication of what was in the FAA data anyway. But the oil platform data wasn't available anywhere else. Malaysia and Singapore A private collection of VFR reporting points, Airports and NDBs for Malaysia and Singapore, sent to me in 2003. Fanton, the supplier of the data, lives in Singapore.
He says that the charts available in Singapore and Malaysia are terribly out of date and these VFR waypoints are very important. Some of the data comes from the AIP, and some is local unpublished information. Australia (Roberts) A private collection of Australian airports, supplied by Philip Roberts, typed in from the En Route Supplement Australia and from the AOPA National Airfield Directory in 2004. There are over 1000 airports in this list. There are no comm frequencies or runway information for this data. Some of the airports do not appear on Google Maps or in Wikipedia, so I'm trying to winnow out the bad ones.
Switzerland (Rueedi) A private collection of Swiss airports and VFR Waypoints, supplied by Michel Rueedi in 2004. The airport information contains comm frequencies and runway information, including grass secondary runways that aren't in DAFIF. Airports that require prior notice or other arrangements before landing there are marked as 'private'. (Elder) A private collection of airports and (a few) seaplane bases for British Columbia, Canada. Like 'Canada (Thompson)' and 'Ontario', it only includes airports that aren't in DAFIF data, and includes comm frequencies and runways for some of them. This data comes from Craig J. Elder and was last updated in 2004.
Ireland (Mackriell) Airports, Navaids, Reporting Points from the Irish AIP. Airports include runway and comm frequencies. This data comes from Andrew J. Mackriell and was updated several times until he left Ireland in 2006. Brazil (Bolorino) Airports from Brazil.
Only includes name, city+state, latitude, longitude and elevation, no other data. This data comes from Fabrica Bolorino in 2005. Canada (Robertson) Airports and Navaids from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and Yukon Territories in Canada. This data comes from Douglas Robertson in 2005. UK and region (Janjua) Airports, navaids, reporting points and others.
Some data is taken from DAFIF, some is taken from UK and European AIP, but also includes ultralight ports and VFR reporting points. Nadim Janjua maintains this data and makes it available on his web site He generously gave me permission to use it here as well. I last updated it in 2005. Argentina (Ortiz) Airports only.
Converted from a Copilot database sent by Osvaldo Oritz in 2005. Not sure of the data source, but the airports that are also in the DAFIF data shows some minor discrepencies in position and elevation.
Canada (McCormick) Warren McCormick sent me an update for 5 or 6 western Canadian airfields in 2007. I'm hoping he'll send me more. Canada (Plews) George Plews maintains a list of airports and a list of water aerodromes taken from the Canada Flight Supplement.
He updates it every data cycle, although he's usually a few days behind the FAA data. Does not include runway or communication frequency data. World IFR Airports Demaf Rame maintains this list of airports around the world. Most of these airports are also in DAFIF. Last updated in 2007.
I take all this data, and combine it. I made some arbitrary decisions about which user data to take if the same waypoint was in more than one data source, mostly based on when was the last time I'd received an update from that user. Since many of the private sources don't include communications frequencies or runways, for instance, I may end up using the basic waypoint data from the private source and combine it with frequencies and runways from DAFIF. The DAFIF data is getting stale, and some of the private data I have is of questionable accuracy.
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If you find a problem, please don't hesitate to send me an update. If you want to enter some data from your local AIP, whether it's one airport or your whole country, please send it along. This data is only as good as the data I'm given. Your contribution of data will keep this data up to date and free.
If you live in the US, the FAA does a pretty good job of providing free and complete data. If you want to contribute, I can give you the URL of various country's AIPs that are available in PDF format and you can type that data in for me. For more information about the CoPilot program, see or the. For more information about the GPSPilot programs, including Fly see. For more information about the GPX data format, and programs that support it, see. For more information about the AeroCalc program see. For more information about the AeroPalm program see.
You can email the author of the Waypoint Generators at. I do these waypoint generators on my own time and with my own money.
If you would like to support my efforts with a donation, I have several options available. Or you can contribute data, which is even more useful to me.
CAVEAT FIRST: Moderators, please NEVER add these placemarks to the community BBS layer This is probably the craziest set of placemarks I've ever generated. This file contains more than 10,000 ( 10,041, to be precise) airports, found in the and in the database.
The airports are organized by country/region and are colorized according to their type. Only the ICAO codes are shown as labels, for brevity, but more information is available when clicking on the icons. The difference between this and a is, that this database doesn't primarily focus on ICAO codes, it is organized in country/region folders and it contains almost twice as many airports, some of which are a lot more precisely located, due to the different data sources used.
2ND CAVEAT:Moving the focus over the United States might explode your computer! There are simply too many airports, so you need quite a capable machine! Moderators: All that said, if you feel this is too much to take, or that it is a duplicate of (which I don't think it is), feel free to delete it, it was fun for me creating and watching it! Edit: Updated to the 0601 DAFIF cycle (Jan. 20, 2006) Edit: Icon orientation now represents direction of first listed rwy (Jan. 22, 2006) Edit: Updated to the 0602 DAFIF cycle (Feb. 22, 2006) Edit: Added magnetic variation to information balloons (Feb.
22, 2006) Edit: Updated to the 0603 DAFIF cycle (Mar. 19, 2006) Edit: Updated to the 0605 DAFIF cycle (May 9, 2006) Edit: Updated to the 0607 DAFIF cycle (July 14, 2006) Edit: Updated to the 0609 DAFIF cycle (Sep. 2, 2006) P.S.: If you want a preview. Quote: Amazing, the military 30 years ago would have loved it!. Times ara a changing rapidly. Or maybe not? Here's a quote from the current DAFIF: Code:.
NOTICE: There is an initiative underway to remove all NGA aeronautical products from the public domain, effective 1 October 2005. This action will not affect DoDAAC and FedAAC accounts. DoD customers have been notified by NGA's Office of Military Support and a public notice will be published in the Federal Register. A POC and a list of frequently asked questions concerning this action can be found on the aeronautical home pages residing on the NGA websites.
So, who knows, how long we can keep this up to date? Still, Enjoy! I'm sorry, but even with Ctrl-F you can't find TFFJ, because unfortunately St.Barthelemy is not included in the, which I'm using as a primary source. It is, though, included in the, which is usually a lot less complete than DAFIF and I'm therefore only using it for the IATA codes.
Maybe, if I got the time, I will change the scripts to fill in airports from the GAD if they're not included in DAFIF. Nonetheless, here's the entry from the GAD: Code: TFFJ:SBH:GUSTAVIA/ST.BARTHEL:ST.-BARTHELEMY:ANTILLES:17:54:00:N:62:51:00:U:0052 Enjoy! Tekgergedan, 3:59 น. I'm very new to Globalearth but being an aviator have looked at some airport positions that I know about in strange places.
Not looked at many but already obvious that HAJJ and HAJM are incorrectly placed - it is quite possible to see the runways in both of these places up to roughly 3nm away. Also using the Google earth search engine puts, for example, the town of Srinagar, India 270nm South East of its correct location!
What gives?.and how do I communicate with the designers, cartographers? Rongparker, 4:12 น. It's update time again So I upgraded to the latest DAFIF cycle (0603). 9987 airports are now included. So, please in this thread. BTW: The readme for the DAFIF has changed. It now reads: Code:.
NOTICE: NGA, on 29 November 2005, announced that the Flight Information Publications (FLIP) and the Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIFTM) will be removed from public access on 1 October 2006. This action will not affect Department of Defense (DoD) customers. DoD customers will continue to have web access to all DAFIF™ and FLIP products through a restricted website. Details will be made available at.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE SEE THE WHITE PAPER IN ALL DAFIF DOCUMENTATION DIRECTORIES. So let's enjoy the data until September Herrminator 9/5/2006, 6:39 น. Time to say goodbye I upgraded to the latest DAFIF cycle (0609). 10041 airports are now included. But, this will be, as far as I can tell, the last update to this database. DAFIF, at, will close it's doors to the public on October 1, and unless somebody makes them change their mind, this means the end of freely available, precise navigational data.
If anyone knows another open source for this kind of data, just let me know. I'll be glad to integrate it into the database. So for now, Goodbye and Enjoy! JetJockey, 5:17 น. Could I suggest a that airports in the USA be selected by check marking desired airport characteristics, thus eliminating clutter. For example airports with: Hard surface runways greater than 10000 feet Hard surface runways between 7000 and 10000 feet Hard surface runways between 5000 and 6999 feet Hard surface runways between 3000 and 4999 feet Hard surface runways between 1500 and 2999 feet Hard surface runways less than 1499 feet Hard surface runways with operating control tower Hard surface runways with no operating control tower Grass/turf runway surfaces of any length.you get the idea.all kinds of ways to classify airports already published, but not on Google earth (that I'm aware of) timotb, 20:35 น.