SkyVector’s Aeronautical Charts

I love looking at aeronautical charts even if I have no idea what to do with them; I just think all the detail is neat. So it’s no surprise that I’ve been enjoying playing with the aeronautical charts collected online at Skyvector.com, which wraps them in a very usable AJAX interface that is reminiscent of Google Maps without simply being a Google Maps mashup: it scrolls and zooms fluidly. It uses real scans of paper maps; you can tell because sometimes you see the legends, etc., at the edges when you scroll.

Via Cartography and La Cartoteca.

Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 5:42 PM
Categories: Aviation

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Very cool! The scanned maps, with legends and everything, are actually available from the FAA. There are a bunch up on aviationtoolbox.org, in a rather raw format. I packaged them for use in a flight simulator (http://zovirl.com/2005/06/05/free-sectional-charts/) but the AJAX interface is much nicer.

Mark Ivey | 03/29/2006 at 11:29 PM | #

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