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<h2>FGMap - FlightGear online map</h2>
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<div style="text-align: center; float: right;"><a href="http://pigeond.net/flightgear/fg_server_map.html"><img src="/flightgear/fgmap_ss/vhhh-ils-tiny.png" width=160 height=120 alt="See the map in action!" title="See the map in action!" border=1></a><br><br><a href="#ss">more screenshots</a></div>
FGMap is a web application written in JavaScript, using <a href="http://www.google.com/apis/maps/">Google Maps (GMap) API</a>. It's a real time flight tracking map that shows where <a href="http://www.flightgear.org/">FlightGear</a> pilots are flying online on the <a href="http://fgms.sf.net/">FlightGear Multiplayer Server</a>.
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It also has navaids lookup that can be used as a navigational map, possibly for any flight simulator. So you can search for an airport and other radio navigation aids such as VOR and NDB.
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<h3>How it works</h3>
At the moment it is pretty simple. The FlightGear server listens on a port for TCP connections, known as the "admin" port. When there's an incoming connection it answers in plain text who's online and their data, including locations and aircraft being used. FGMap uses AJAX to poll the server via a CGI, which translate the server admin port output into XML, and then presented onto the map.<br><br>
In short:<br><br>
<pre>Browser/JavaScript/AJAX <---> HTTP server/CGI <---> FlightGear server</pre>
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This will definitely change in the future, to provide more information on the pilots and the environment.<br><br>

As for the navaids, they are imported into a database (running PostgreSQL) from FlightGear's data. The map talks to it using AJAX via a CGI which does queries on the database and returns the result in XML.

<h3>Status</h3>

Monday, 03-Jun-2013 15:35:02 AEST<br><br>

FGMap's code, together with its issue tracker, can now be found on <a href="https://github.com/pigeond/fgmap/">GitHub</a>.<br><br>

Lots of updates and fixes. FGMap is now fairly well tested under Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, as well as the out of fashion IE.<br><br>

METAR lookup is up. You can find it in the airport info box.<br><br>

ILS info is updated. Airway is there. Use it. Test it!<br><br>

FGMap 0.2 is the latest development version. This version contains the navaids lookup feature. Navaids data currently is from FlightGear, which uses data from X-Plane, which is from DAFIF/AIRAC.<br><br>

Navaids are mostly done. I have finished radio nav including VOR/VOR-DME/VORTAC/NDB/TACAN. Airports and heliports are there. I'm currently working on improving the ILS info. Airway is also under development.<br><br>

There are plans to add more features such as flight planning, waypoints/routes plotting, and scenery lookup/development tools.


<h3>Use it!</h3>
Use <a href="/flightgear/fg_server_map.html">FGMap 0.2</a>!<br><br>
Alternatively you could goto<br><br>
<!--<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">--><a href="http://mpmap01.flightgear.org">mpmap01.flightgear.org</a> (Germany server, might be a slightly older version)</span><br><br>
<!--mpmap01.flightgear.org is down and will be down until further notice.<br><br>-->
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<a href="http://mpmap02.flightgear.org/">mpmap02.flightgear.org</a> (Hong Kong server), which is an alias for pigeond.net.<br><br>
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<span style="text-decoration: line-through;">FGMap 0.1 is still hosted at <a href="http://mpmap01.flightgear.org/">mpmap01.flightgear.org</a>.</span>

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<h3>Screenshots</h3>
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<img src="fgmap_ss/fgmap-hybrid.png" width=320 height=240 border=0 alt="A few FlightGear pilots flying online over Europe" title="A few FlightGear pilots flying online over Europe"><br><br>A few FlightGear pilots flying online over Europe
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<a href="/images/diary/fgmap_nav1.jpg"><img src="/images/diary/fgmap_nav1-small.png" width=320 height=240 border=1 alt="Navaids over KOAK - Metropolitan Oakland Intl" title="Navaids over KOAK - Metropolitan Oakland Intl"></a><br><br>Navaids over KOAK - Metropolitan Oakland Intl
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<a href="fgmap_ss/fgmap-nav-vhhh.jpg"><img src="fgmap_ss/fgmap-nav-vhhh-small.jpg" width=320 height=240 border=1 alt="Navaids over VHHH - Hong Kong Intl" title="Navaids over VHHH - Hong Kong Intl"></a><br><br>Navaids over VHHH - Hong Kong Intl
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