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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.
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.


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.

Welt2000 - Radius Filter
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.

Welt2000 Runway length Filter
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.

Welt2000 - Load Outlandings
If the check box Load Outlandings is activated, all outlanding sites contained in the selected region will be loaded too.

Welt2000 - Install
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.

Welt2000 Data Reload
After a download or a change in home position or configuration, Cumulus will trigger an automatic reload of the Welt2000 data.

openAIP - Download
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.

openAIP - Radius Filter
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.

openAIP Runway length Filter
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.

openAIP - Load
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.

List Display
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.

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