Category Archives: Nav Data

Design and construction of a navigation data community to replace and supplement the DAFIF data.

Tip jar service?

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Paul Tomblin

Man this off-line blogging is a blessing and a curse, isn’t it? Now that Amazon Honor System has gone away, what other options do I have for soliciting donations on my navaid.com website? I get most of my donations through … Continue reading →

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Darn it!

Posted on August 25, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Some years ago I got a set of Shape Files (much as I hated ESRI at the time, they did beat us (GeoVision) fair and square with an inferior product and superior marketing) for the provincial and territorial boundaries of … Continue reading →

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Sigh

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

I made some major changes to the way data gets loaded into my navaid.com waypoint generator database, mostly in the processing of the “combined user data”. Mostly, I wanted to make sure that if “Bob” provides me some data on … Continue reading →

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This looks incredibly promising

Posted on August 21, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

Thanks to a post by Skud, I’ve discovered Freebase, which is, as Skud described it, “crack for information nerds”. It appears to be exactly what I was hoping to develop or find for my aviation navigation data project – a … Continue reading →

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Wiki currently shut down

Posted on June 1, 2007 by Paul Tomblin

My “DAFIF Replacement” Wiki is currently shut down because of a bug that was causing my computer to hit load averages up over 10 every time Google indexed it. My log files were full of lines like: [Thu May 31 … Continue reading →

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