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Old 31st Aug 2012, 06:19
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achimha
 
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They have been doing this for several years with the US sectionals (admitted, that's just scanning and aligning) and it appears to be a hobby project. Their technical implementation is excellent so they know their stuff. Auto-generating maps is very difficult (what to put where, how to make sure nothing overlaps etc.) and they're really good at it. Better than anyone else I've seen, including Jeppesen with their computer generated maps (FliteStar, JeppFD).

For Canada, they have implemented parsing the AIP and they want to do this for more countries. My hope is that they are going to offer their map system through an API to other companies. RocketRoute's map implementation is clumsy and it could greatly benefit from SkyVector.

I guess once they have incorporated the AIPs, it makes sense to submit corrections.
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