The Norwegian ICAO VFR-chart is really bad and not vectorized. Would it be possible to do the same thing as with the Swedish map?
You should charge us for this ;)
I will look into it.
Working now on putting it all up on a tile server (might go down soon, or the URL may change):
Dimme,
Would it be possible to do this for the UK? Love Foreflight for instrument flying but as you say – the base map kinda sucks for VFR
Lots of free options here,
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/search?term=free%20maps
Not sure which one you’d consider most appropriate.
It’s possible. Do they have any maps already styled that you think would be appropriate? It’s the styling that takes time.
I thought this would be appropriate as it’s vector and it is already in mbtiles format but when I import it into ForeFlight it says unsupported data type on the map display
https://osdatahub.os.uk/downloads/open/OpenZoomstack
More info here
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/open-zoomstack
The CAA VFR chart is available in FF.
I have the three UK CAA 1:500k charts as TIFFs (I fly with these, calibrated, under Oziexplorer) but they are strictly speaking copyright, and I have never seen a vector representation although obviously it must exist since these are all CAD-generated. The problem is that everybody, (CAA, Memory Map, and others) are making money out of this.
The legal way around it would be to get the user to purchase them and then convert them to run under FF. I think that’s tricky since they are sold in an encrypted format (a descendant of QCT which was reverse engineered years ago) and the routes to a generic graphic format involve displaying on a huge screen and taking a screenshot, single or tiled.
But with raster maps you can’t do airspace warnings etc.
I see Qalupalik beat me to it above
New URL with overlayed OFM airspace:
Will also add the other charts there eventually. PDF generation is possible.
Peter wrote:
But with raster maps you can’t do airspace warnings etc.
With FF you only need to add a decent basemap. All airspace is there, you can get all the warnings you want.