Airspace Converter

The aeronautical industry relies on airspaces for managing air traffic and establishing routes and their characteristics. Most of the times, the data is being offered in standard, OpenAir or openAIP formats, which cannot be adequately displayed in GoogleEarth. Airspace Converter will help people transform such files into output KMZ, Polish or Garmin IMG formats, for easy 3D display and further processing.

Users can select either input files, waypoints or raster files as input and once the preferred airspace data has been loaded from its respective repository, the app will display the total number of airspaces loaded. The data can also be unloaded, and support for multiple files is also provided.

Running the conversion process will prompt for saving the output files, and a status log will keep users notified in real-time about the progress of the operation. Errors will be displayed in red, for easy identification and the record can be cleared on demand, for avoiding clutter.

Several output formats are available in the big, accessible drop-down menu, and the default terrain altitude can be manually set, provided that users have accurate information about that. Having said that, this app does require some advanced knowledge if one wishes to parameterize it manually.

An area filter can be applied, in order to perform the conversion in a designated area from the dataset, and, this way crop the area from the entire coverage. This is attained by manually inputting the coordinates in the filtering wizard.

Those who wish to better link airspace data with terrain visualizing will appreciate the conversion and pre-processing features provided by this software solution. It will enable them to add their airspace information, filter its extent and format it to the preferred output format.