Andrey Serbinenko wrote:
Does anybody know why it so happened that there's literally
nobody else out there besides jepp in aeronautical charting
business? TERPS people develop the procedures, FAA test-flies
them, and all this info is publicly available. Yet, the only
commercial enterprise harvesting there is jepp. Between NACO and
them there's a substantial gap in terms of pricing and packaging
of services. Why is it empty?


Well, Howie Keefe's Air Chart Systems actually developed innovative
repackaging of the government charts in addition to some self-produced
charts I don't think they sell anymore.