:: About :: Summary ::Notam Map is a stand-alone Java application written by Andrew Hall and distributed using the Java Web Start launch mechanism.The application will download two of the set of Standard UK Bulletins from the UK Aeronautical Information Service, the London and Scottish FIR & Aerodrome VFR/IFR Bulletins. Essentially, it provides the ability to filter out irrelevant bulletins and to decode and present the remainder plotted on a map of the UK. This makes the job of identifying which are relevant to one's flight much easier and less error prone than scanning the published text.
The application maintains a single configuration file :: Known Bugs ::The most notable issue hanging over this application is the fact that it relies on the text in the free text field of the notam to conform to a certain syntax in order to identify positions and affected areas. It works for the most part because the text is generally written to conform to a loose syntax but it is not perfect. The data is entered by hand and can therefore contain errors and in any case the syntax itself is sometimes ambiguous. To try and resolve these problems the author is currently working with AIS to tighten up the syntax and to provide them with a means of automatic checking when the data is entered and before it is published.There is a bug in the Java virtual machine for Microsoft Windows (version 1.5 and before) which causes circles to be drawn incorrectly. This is particularly obvious with the smaller ones and makes them look quite untidy. A work-around has been to draw the very small circles manually but it would have been too much of a performance hit to do this for the bigger ones. The problem does not occur under Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X and has been fixed in version 1.6 of the Microsoft Windows version. :: Apologies ::To the Irish. For some reason the map I obtained did not include the coast of Ireland and so the island appears to have either sunk or been cast adrift. |