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New on-line instrument approach plate service
I am pleased to announce the beta launch of a new on-line instrument
approach plate service at http://siap.awun.net/ This service collects all the plates you need for a trip into a single PDF file. Try it out and let me know if you think it's useful. (There's a feedback form at the end.) The service is, for the moment, free of charge. rg |
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It looks like a session ID cookie. It's not persistent across browser
restart. Very common when the web application is written using many widely used framework. -M |
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In article . com,
"M" wrote: It looks like a session ID cookie. That's right, it's just a session ID. At the moment I'm using it for traffic monitoring so I can tell how many unique visitors I have to the site. That in turn will help me figure out if I can make the thing self-sustaining. I don't need to make a profit on it, but I do need to make enough to cover the bandwidth costs. Approach plates are pretty big documents. It's not persistent across browser restart. Very common when the web application is written using many widely used framework. That's true, but in this case the site is written using a framework I developed myself. The idea is to some day support advanced features that require login accounts, like having the site keep track of which plates you've already downloaded so that you can ask for all the plates that have changed since the last time you downloaded them. The infrastructure for creating and managing accounts is all there, just not being used at the moment. Just FYI, rg |
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Ron Garret wrote:
The service is, for the moment, free of charge. So we can expect something similar to the $100 hamburger site? Just kidding. Don't ban me. Ron Lee |
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Would it be easier for you to gather the charts from the AOPA site and
combine the PDF, that way you don't need to host the actual files. I go to the AOPA site, download the .zip file and then use a PDF merge tool to merge the charts into one PDF, then I can print them two to a page. -Robert |
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
Would it be easier for you to gather the charts from the AOPA site and combine the PDF, that way you don't need to host the actual files. I go to the AOPA site, download the .zip file and then use a PDF merge tool to merge the charts into one PDF, then I can print them two to a page. Then it sounds like you won't be needing Ron's service since that's what he's essentially offering. Hosting the files themselves is cheap. It's paying the hosting provider for the bandwidth that can get expensive. -- John T http://sage1solutions.com/TknoFlyer http://pocketgear.com/products_searc...veloperid=4415 ____________________ |
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In article ,
"John T" wrote: Robert M. Gary wrote: Would it be easier for you to gather the charts from the AOPA site and combine the PDF, that way you don't need to host the actual files. I go to the AOPA site, download the .zip file and then use a PDF merge tool to merge the charts into one PDF, then I can print them two to a page. Then it sounds like you won't be needing Ron's service since that's what he's essentially offering. Hosting the files themselves is cheap. It's paying the hosting provider for the bandwidth that can get expensive. Exactly. All the approach plates together take up only a couple of GB, which is nothing by today's standards. But the resulting composite files are huge (tens to hundreds of MB) so the service has to be hosted at a real data center or it will be slower than molasses in February (although I see that AOPA seems to have managed to compress the original plates. I'll have to figure out how they did that.) As for printing them two to a page, most printer drivers will let you do that with any multi-page document. Is anyone having trouble printing two to a page? rg |
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New on-line instrument approach plate service
The only trick to printed two to a page was to merge the PDFs. I don't
know how to print two to a page when the two are in different PDFs. However, any off the shelf PDF merger seems to solve that problem (did for me). -Robert |
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