Snowbird wrote:
I thought I'd share how I've been displaying the tracks of
my flights.

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Thanks for an informative contribution. I used to do some of this stuff, but
I've kind of gotten out of the habit. All the manual steps required are kind of
off-putting. Seems like a niche opportunity for a software developer to
integrate all the steps into a point and click.

I'm sure I'm forgetting some of the steps I used to use, but I remember they
involved a DOS freeware program called "gardown", and then another DOS freeware
filter program that converted the track into Street Maps USA format. The track
was displayed using Street Maps USA. Of course, no aviation-related waypoints on
the map.

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If someone
knows of a text file with the data which I could just search, or some
FAA pub where they're listed, this would be helpful.

There are text files available from the FAA on CD.
http://www2.faa.gov/ats/ata/ata100/120/datadistr.html

There are various copies of it online with various degrees of currency.
ftp://ftp.tc.faa.gov/nfdc/
http://beta.pilotage.com/software/cd_faa/

Since you mentioned ghostview, I take it you are a unix-weenie. You should be
able to use the various unix text processing utilities to filter the big files
down to something useful.

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A lot of common
graphics programs won't convert .pdf files to other formats. I use the

Still assuming you have access to unix/linux, try imagemagick
http://www.imagemagick.org/. For all I know, there may even be a windoze version.

Dave
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