Settings - Point Data
Point Data
Cumulus can use two different sources:
as database for point data, such as airfields. The default is
Welt2000, which is also automatically downloaded, if it is missing
or was updated. Welt2000 has stored all data in one file.
openAIP uses one file per country. The advantage of
openAIP is, that you can bring in directly your own contributions or
corrections on their webpage at
www.openaip.net. A little disadvantage is, that you have to define
in Cumulus the countries which you want to install. The rest is done
automatically by Cumulus, if you press the download button.
Terms of use for external data
Please read and accept the Terms and Conditions of
before you use these data.
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Source
- In the source box you can select the point data source
(openAIP / Welt2000) to be used. There are different forms provided
for every source. In the headline of the form you can see the link to
the appropriate webpage.
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Welt2000 - Country Filter
- Here you can define the countries to be read from the
Welt2000 file. Several countries can be entered as a list separated
by commas or spaces. The country identifiers have to be encoded
according to ISO-3166 as two letter code. Allowed separators are
space or comma.
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Welt2000 - Radius Filter
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As an alternative to using the country filter, you can define a
radius around your home position. All airfields laying inside this
radius will be read from the Welt2000 data file. If the radius is
zero and no country filter is defined, then a default radius of 500
kilometers is applied.
Please Note! If the home position is too far away from
the area defined by the filter or radius values, no airfield data
are shown on the map.
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Welt2000 Runway length Filter
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Here you can define a minimum runway length for the airfields or
outlandings to be read in to filter out objects with too short runways.
To switch off the filter set its value to zero.
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Welt2000 - Load Outlandings
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If the check box Load Outlandings is activated, all outlanding
sites contained in the selected region will be loaded too.
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Welt2000 - Install
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Cumulus can download the Welt2000 file containing the airfield data
from the relevant Internet web page.
Note, if Cumulus is in motion no download is carried out.
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Welt2000 Data Reload
- After a download or a change in home position or
configuration, Cumulus will trigger an automatic reload of the
Welt2000 data.
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openAIP - Download
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Enter the countries beside the Download button, which you want
to download from openAIP. The country identifiers have to be encoded
according to ISO-3166 as two letter code. Allowed separators are
space or comma. Press the
Download button to get the desired files from openAIP. If
Cumulus is in move, no downloads are possible.
Updates of the files are provided in short time intervals
without an extra announcement by openAIP. Therefore you should
download from time to time again the airfield files to be up to date.
Note! Cumulus will not do that automatically.
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openAIP - Radius Filter
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All point data lying inside your home position radius will be read
from the openAIP data files, which are selected on the load page.
Please Note! If the home position is too far away from
the area defined by the radius value, no airfield data
are shown on the map.
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openAIP Runway length Filter
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Here you can define a minimum runway length for the point data to be read
in to filter out objects with too short runways.
To switch off the filter set its value to zero.
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openAIP - Load
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Pressing the Load button opens a table showing all loadable
openAIP point data files. The point data files, dowloaded by Cumulus, have
the following naming format:
<two-letter-country-code>_wpt.aip for airfields
<two-letter-country-code>_nav.aip for radio navigation facilities
<two-letter-country-code>_hot.aip for thermal hotspots
In the header of the table you can see the directory, where the listed
files are stored. At the left side of every table row you can see a
checkbox. If you activate the checkbox, the listed file is loaded otherwise
not.
If the box Check or Uncheck all is checked, all listed files are
loaded by Cumulus. If you want not to load all, deselect as first this
checkbox. Only then you can make single selections of files.
If you select a whole table row, you can remove the selected data file by
pressing the trash button.
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List Display
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In the List Display area you can enlarge the height of the list rows
applied to the point lists and the reachable list for a better legibility.