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jan-eran
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Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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
plippo
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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).
HansLab
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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?
Kjelle69
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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
Kjelle69
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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:
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Imported it into MGL-Central as an ARINC-424
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Exported the Navidata file and installed it in the Simulator through the MMC (SD-Card)
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:D
plippo
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post by plippo »

Yeah, sorry for not noticing your reply. Great to hear that you got it working!
fb_bln
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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
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iEFIS G3
BRM NG5 rg
rainier
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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).
fb_bln
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Re: Request info download / install Scandinavian Maps

Post 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
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iEFIS G3
BRM NG5 rg
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