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BartVandewoestyne / OpenAir

Worldwide OpenAir files per country.
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Aim at a better OpenAir standard and document OpenAir dialects #2

Open BartVandewoestyne opened 8 years ago

BartVandewoestyne commented 8 years ago

It is clear that the current OpenAir specification as published online at http://www.winpilot.com/usersguide/userairspace.asp has flaws in it. I propose the following actions to improve this:

  1. Document the defects, inconsistencies and design flaws of the current OpenAir specification online at http://www.winpilot.com/usersguide/userairspace.asp in a text file.
  2. Contact WinPilot, who is for as far as I know the company officially in charge of the OpenAir specification, and ask them if there is already a newer version of the OpenAir standard.
  3. Contact the people from XCSoar to see if they have ideas for a better OpenAir standard.
SkipAir commented 8 years ago

OpenAir is basicaly not a standard. It's just a format description for the input of airspace in the WinPilot software for sailplanes, written a long time ago by the developper.

I believe XCSoar, an opensource development, is nowadays the new standard software used by an ever growing community (not only sailplanes, but also paragliders and hanggliders). XCSoar already added the "AR" field for indicating the radio frequency of controlled airpace. I'll contact them to see if they are keen to work on a 2nd generation OpenAir format more in line with the IGC format description.

BartVandewoestyne commented 8 years ago

While you contact the people from XCSoar, it is maybe a good idea to point them to https://github.com/BartVandewoestyne/OpenAir and https://github.com/BartVandewoestyne/oaconvert My goal with the OpenAir repository is that is becomes a place where people from all over the world contribute so that we can obtain a central repository of worldwide OpenAir files. oaconvert could act as a too to check the OpenAir files for correctness.