AirNav -database-would it be possible?

[Blincodave]

I am the kind of user who uses my box erratically and normally I have no internet access when I do. Would it be possible for you to make available a database file that can updated at regular intervals and then be downloaded from your server?

Kind Regards

Dave

[Mike_Tassy]

Maybe an online database updateable by registered users of ANRB.   Then available to download
Mike

[Blincodave]

Thought I'd bump this to see if I get a reply from the good folk at AirNav HQ.

Dave

[DaveG]

Maybe an online database updateable by registered users of ANRB.   Then available to download
Mike

I like this idea but would add that any new or amended record online should then be verified by some super users who know how to double check data before it goes live, these people do not need to be Airnav staff, in-fact be better if it was not (not in a bad way).

Great Idea Something like GAS DB but for Radarbox users but also downloadable.

[AirNav Development]

We would be more than happy to develop the technical solution for our users to have such a database. All volunteers please send us a PM so we can start thinking about this.

[DaveReid]

We would be more than happy to develop the technical solution for our users to have such a database. All volunteers please send us a PM so we can start thinking about this.

Is it reasonable to assume that the savings you make from no longer having to source and maintain your own database would be passed on to participating users ? 

Waive the network subscription for contributors, say ?

[AirNav Support]

No we are not saying that, this is very early days, we are just exploring each avenue.

[tarbat]

Is it reasonable to assume that the savings you make from no longer having to source and maintain your own database would be passed on to participating users ?

Are Airnav saying they would no longer maintain a database for us - I don't think so?   I would still want to see the updates from GAS being included automatically as they currently do.

[DaveReid]

Are Airnav saying they would no longer maintain a database for us - I don't think so?   I would still want to see the updates from GAS being included automatically as they currently do.

If that's the case, it sounds like yet another red herring to me.

As any politician will tell you, setting up a think-tank, inviting proposals and then mulling over them for months or even years is a great substitute for actually doing anything :-)

[radarspotter10]

Is it reasonable to assume that the savings you make from no longer having to source and maintain your own database would be passed on to participating users ?

Are Airnav saying they would no longer maintain a database for us - I don't think so?   I would still want to see the updates from GAS being included automatically as they currently do.

Hi airnav
happy enough  here as well
from pat

[Runway 31]

Let Dave do it.  It would save a thread every other day.!!!!

[radarspotter10]

Let Dave do it.  It would save a thread every other day.!!!!

Runway.
Yes give him the job, it will give our heads peace and quiet.
from pat.

[DaveReid]

Let Dave do it.

I thought I already was :-)

www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=4285.0

[radarspotter10]

Let Dave do it.

I thought I already was :-)

www.airnavsystems.com/forum/index.php?topic=4285.0

Yes i seen that ok dave LOL.
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Really Dave.  Airnav asked "what is the most accurate aircraft information external database", and you replied http://www.aircraftid.com/.  But conveniently failed to mention that you are the CEO of AvGen, who operate the www.aircraftId.  service.
from pat

[DaveReid]

Sorry Pat, which part of "This information is hereby placed in the public domain and may be freely used without attribution by any individual or organisation" are you having trouble understanding ?

We're now (it would appear) talking about a vastly expanded version of the same concept. 

I'm simply struggling to understand how it's possible to reconcile, on one hand, marketing RadarBox as having a comprehensive built-in database with, on the other, suggesting to users that maintaining accurate data is actually up to them, to the extent of offering to "develop the technical solution for our users to have such a database".