From here
Peter wrote:
How long has all of Europe’s airspace data (and danger etc areas) including the Italian stuff been online?
EAD has been around since 2003.
Hmmm; my point is being missed totally
Peter wrote:
Hmmm; my point is being missed totally
How so? EAD SDO is machine readable data. That’s not the PDF documents which are called EAD PAMS.
I never had a problem figuring out which airport offered what. Takes a bit of research but easy with the internet. When in doubt I call or email.
Peter wrote:
Hmmm; my point is being missed totally
You were asking about machine readable data, right? That’s one of the things EAD provides. Companies such as SkyDemon generate their airspace charts automatically from EAD data. Of course, I don’t know if Italy participated from the start.
I don’t think the full airspace data is there, unless this is recent.
The test would be whether you could create a VFR chart from the data, just by adding 3rd party topo data, and merging equal airspace segments so it looks clean.
Peter wrote:
The test would be whether you could create a VFR chart from the data, just by adding 3rd party topo data, and merging equal airspace segments so it looks clean.AFAIU that is exactly what SkyDemon does.
That must be relatively recent because
So if true this is very good news but I still don’t believe that my post #22 is the full story otherwise the VFR charting situation in Europe would not be so dire.