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Adding basemap Charts to ForeFlight

Just to reiterate what Dimme said – ForeFlight has all the aviation related info you need, however its basemap could do with improving for VFR flight. The CAA chart option mentioned above is not the same thing.

EGLL, EGLF, EGLK, United Kingdom

@Xlr8tr

UK is rendering now =)


ESME, ESMS

Dimme,

That look great!

Did you use the mbtiles or the geopackage to render? I started to explore QGIS and liked what I saw but quickly realised I needed to spend some time learning the software.

Last Edited by Xlr8tr at 16 May 05:19
EGLL, EGLF, EGLK, United Kingdom

UK (GB): https://www.jottacloud.com/s/18404cf4c2e83a046bdb80e23110f41f7dc

Spot elevations are in feet.

@Xlr8tr I didn’t use the .mbtiles at all. I used a combination of different files from the Ordnance Survey. Open Zoomstack doesn’t include everything I needed. I hope the result looks good.

However, for some reason, the Ordnance Survey doesn’t cover Northern Ireland, so this is more of a GB than a UK map.


Last Edited by Dimme at 16 May 09:05
ESME, ESMS

Great work, I shall download it later when I get back from the sim. I find this whole process fascinating, thank you very much.

EGLL, EGLF, EGLK, United Kingdom

@ErlendV Looking into Norway now.

It’s a pain in the ass the way their vector files are structured, but I will figure it out =)

ESME, ESMS

New URL with overlayed OFM airspace:http://vfrmaps.cryodev.se/
Will also add the other charts there eventually. PDF generation is possible.

I tried to download the charts in the mbtiles format, but the link leads only to the pdf download possibility. What do I miss? Has somebody a hint for me?

@Dimme thanks for the work you have done!

EDDS , Germany

There are no mbtiles on that site. The mbtiles links are in this thread.

ESME, ESMS

Thx. That was the missing link.

EDDS , Germany

Here come two more, Norway ( @ErlendV ) and Greece ( @petakas, @atmilatos ).

All countries can be found under one link: https://www.jottacloud.com/s/184a39caf88337e4c98906185fbb3b7d6df

@Peter, maybe you can edit the initial post and paste the new link for all the countries. Any additional countries will be added to the same folder.

@atmilatos, you could also use it as a basemap under the OFM airspace layer here: https://www.aopa.gr/awg. An example implementation in OpenLayers can be found here: https://vfrmaps.cryodev.se.


Last Edited by Dimme at 27 May 23:04
ESME, ESMS
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