[Xastir] FAA Sectionals

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 01:21:09PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <change-xastir at nightwind.net> flavor, containing:
> http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/FAA/sectionals/
> 
> FAA Sectionals...looks like this guy got the DVD subscription and is
> putting them online for all to use (TIFFs with georeferencing).
> 
> And according to the FAA, it's legal to distribute:
> http://naco.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=naco/faq#q2h
> 
> Go up a few directory levels and there are other maps as well.

This site is listed in README.MAPS.  Be warned --- if you attempt to read them
into xastir as-is, you'll be disappointed with the result: because FAA
sectionals cover a large area and are in Lambert Conformal Conic projection,
xastir doesn't register them properly in the display.  See README.MAPS for
the gdalwarp command you have to run to distort the map into something Xastir 
can use.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 
 "The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly
  worth the effort." -- Norton Juster