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Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:11 pm
by jan-eran
Hi MGL forum, thanks for accepting my membership.
I have just recently aqquired a Sonex tailwheel aircraft in Norway, MGL Voyager equipped - without a map database. May I ask for any assistance, where to purchase/download to SD following installation into the MGL Voyager ?
kind regards
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:38 am
by plippo
I used Openflightmaps.org for Finland and Sweden (EPSG3857 tiles and ARINC424 airspace data). Norway seems to be not supported yet, but you may want to contact ofm about the status of it.
The conversion was relatively easy but required a bit of massaging for airspaces (line-ending change).
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:58 pm
by HansLab
Hi Philippo, could you please take us by the hand in this 'massaging thing', because we're not all (at least I ain't) software specialists.....
Is there a way you could teach us? TEams or whatever?
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2023 2:31 pm
by Kjelle69
I am also very interested in how to use the ARINC-424 data and convert it to .ewd files that the iEfis is using.
I have tried a lot of different ways importing the arinc data to MGL-Central software but it does not seem to really read the file correctly when importing it, you are hinting about some massaging of the Arinc file? Line ending edits? Could you please describe this a little bit more in detail? @plippo
Example of the content in the ARINC-424 file:
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SEURP ESMTESA 0 N N56412700E012491200E004000101 P MWGE HALMSTAD 823572310
SEURP ESMTESGRW01 0074410060 N56405149E012490553 148 823582310
SEURP ESMTESGRW19 0074411860 N56420439E012491993 148 823592310
SEURP ESMTESGRW06 0019680520 N56410336E012482598 098 823602310
SEURP ESMTESGRW24 0019682320 N56411540E012485406 098 823612310
SEURP ESMXESA 0 N N56554900E014434400E005000610 P MWGE VAXJO/KRONOBERG 823622310
SEURP ESMXESGRW01 0069090130 N56551172E014432669 148 823632310
SEURP ESMXESGRW19 0069091930 N56561805E014435482 148 823642310
SEURP ESNDESA 0 N N62025200E014252700E004001178 P MWGE SVEG 823652310
SEURP ESNDESGRW09 0055840870 N62025041E014241726 098 823662310
SEURP ESNDESGRW27 0055842670 N62025324E014261421 098 823672310
SEURP ESNGESA 0 N N67075900E020484400E009001027 P MWGE GALLIVARE 823682310
SEURP ESNGESGRW12 0056231180 N67080963E020474986 148 823692310
SEURP ESNGESGRW30 0056232980 N67074369E020495550 148 823702310
SEURP ESNKESA 0 N N63025500E017460800E007000036 P MWGE KRAMFORS-SOLLEFTEA 823712310
SEURP ESNKESGRW17 0065651720 N63032691E017455739 148 823722310
SEURP ESNKESGRW35 0065653520 N63022299E017461836 148 823732310
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2023 7:01 pm
by Kjelle69
I solved the problem with the ARINC-424 text file.
Opened it into Visual Studio and resaved it according to the following encoding:
- 387547934_896472411818739_3032653285766104094_n.png (11.27 KiB) Viewed 7336 times
Imported it into MGL-Central as an ARINC-424
- Skärmbild 2023-10-16 205441.png (69.55 KiB) Viewed 7336 times
Exported the Navidata file and installed it in the Simulator through the MMC (SD-Card)
- iEfis.png (221.82 KiB) Viewed 7336 times
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2024 2:53 pm
by plippo
Yeah, sorry for not noticing your reply. Great to hear that you got it working!
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:57 am
by fb_bln
Hi,
I just found this page and hope you can help me.
I have an iEFIS G3 and try to load a dataset for Map, waypoints and such.
For this, I downloaded the ARINC file for ED from
https://www.openflightmaps.org/ed-germany/ and tried to load it to the MGL Central.
But MGL Central will error out after processing 83000 lines of the file (from folder embedded), no matter of the import settings.
Simply splitting the file did not work either.
Using the (reduced?) isolated folder file it works but it does not give me any map but only the waypoints.
What do I need to do to have the underlying map as in your picture?
Is there any way to import the large file?
Thanks
Fabian
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2024 2:47 pm
by rainier
ARINC file is not a map. A ARINC424 file contains navigational data.
For maps from OpenFlightMaps use MapMaker2 with the EPGS53857 format mapsource (described in the included pdf file after installation).
Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2024 11:26 am
by fb_bln
Thanks for pointing out. I found it now.
As it's a quite tedious task to create the tiles from the countries' EPGS files through the world map individually one after the other (hoping not to miss a tile), is there a way to automate this as some sort of batch?
Just like if you manually georeferenced maps and I can just replace a part and re-run the whole batch?
thanks
Fabian