Open Source Aviation Maps
The article discusses the development of open-source aviation maps using data from the FAA's National Airspace System Resource. Jesse McGraw has created two GitHub repositories that convert FAA data feeds into SQLite3 databases for use in QGIS. The article also details the technical setup and tools used for data analysis and map rendering.
- ▪The FAA provides freely available data feeds for aviation charts.
- ▪Jesse McGraw has been working on GitHub repositories for 12 years to convert FAA data into usable formats.
- ▪QGIS is a popular application for rendering maps, with around 15 million launches monthly.
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Open Source Aviation Maps The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) maintains a National Airspace System Resource (NASR) system. This system produces data feeds that are freely available and have been used by firms such as Jeppesen for producing aviation charts. Jesse McGraw has been working on two GitHub repositories for the past 12 years that convert these feeds into SQLite3 databases that can then be rendered in QGIS. His first repository contains a QGIS workspace as well as a BASH script that downloads SVGs, CSVs, Natural Earth Shapefiles from a Dropbox link. His second repository contains an ETL codebase and is made up of 4,039 lines of Python. Its earliest commit was in 2014 and has received updates as recently as three weeks ago.
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