Last update 9/11/2008 10:00am pst

FAA Sectional Charts
. . . . . . . . NOT FOR INFLIGHT PRIMARY NAVIGATION . . . . .

Sectional Charts of U.S. - merged and tiled

. . . for applications like NASA WorldWind - - WWC and WWJ

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These images were clipped, merged and tiled using FWTools and dstile from
the FAA Sectionals and are free for non-commercial purposes.
The images will not be kept up to date but may be updated yearly or ??
No waranty is implied.
For help on the layers check the WWC forum  or the  WWJ forum
The original charts are available here NACO/FAA
Matt Fox has done a set for use with a Google Earth Plugin MFox FAA charts

    Here are some layers that can be used and/or modified.  They will set up the directory structure 
    in your cache and the tiles will be downloaded as you pan to different areas.
	
    For WWC
    FAA.xml   Place it in the Config/Earth directory.
    This update has 5 main layers.  "48States", "Alaska" and "Hawaii" and for the TACs "48St" and "AK"

    For WWJ
    Sec_48.java  for US 48 States
    Sec_AK.java  for Alaska
    Sec_HI.java  for Hawaii
    T_48.java    for TACs in the 48 States
    T_AK.java    for TACs in Alaska
    Place these in the layers/Earth directory and add them to your layer list.
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This set can be set up to serve the tiles to WWC and WWJ, the same as they are from this site.  
    48States_serv_4.zip  levels 0 to 4 (264,054,107)
    48States_serv_5.zip  level  5      (834,314,912)
    Alaska_serv.zip      levels 0 to 5 (202,954,837)
    Hawaii_serv.zip      levels 0 to 4 (  4,251,140)
  Terminal Area Charts
    48St_serv.zip   (127,063,488)
    AK_serv.zip     ( 15,909,252)
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CACHE PACKS
  If you want complete sets they can be downloaded.
This set is for WWC (WW.net  C#)
  Sectionals                  (size in bytes)
    L012.zip  - levels 0,1,2  ( 17,140,585)*
    L01234.zip  levels 0 to 4 (264,122,292)
    L5.zip      level  5      (827,813,859)***
    Alaska.zip  levels 0 to 5 (202,983,975)
    Hawaii.zip  levels 0 to 4 (  4,252,742)
  Terminal Area Charts
    48St_WWC.zip   48 States  (127,104,712)
    AK_WWC.zip     Alaska     ( 15,490,753)
    These can be placed in the WW.net cache when unzipped and renamed.

This set is for WWJ (Java)
  Sectionals
    L012dds.zip   - levels 0,1,2 in .dds format   ( 26,414,956)*
    L01234dds.zip   levels 0 to 4 in .dds format  (406,454,028)
    L5dds.zip       level  5 in .dds format     (1,254,502,550)***
    Alaska_dds.zip  levels 0 to 5 in .dds format  (304,452,758)
    Hawaii_dds.zip  levels 0 to 4 in .dds format  (  5,648,626)
  Terminal Area Charts
    48St_WWJ.zip  for US 48 States in .dds format (184,511,055)
    AK_WWJ.zip    for Alaska in .dds format       ( 22,344,245)
    These can be placed in the WWJ cache when unzipped and renamed.

   *Important: Get your layer set up and working with just levels 0, 1 and 2 first!
    Then you can take the time to download the larger .zip files.
 ***For many purposes level 5 is not necessary, try just the lower levels first if
    you are short on disk space.
	
For individuals without a high speed connection to download the images a DVD may be
made available, if there is enough need for it, just for the cost of processing,
handling, shipping, etc., probably for the same amount as a single DVD from the FAA.


email: neil@nlneilson.com