<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Data sources</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GNU/Linux Aviation HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="NeoKit" HREF="x654.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Environment" HREF="x714.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GNU/Linux Aviation HOWTO: </TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x654.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x714.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN700" ></A >Chapter 6. Data sources</H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="x714.html" >Environment</A ></DT ><DT >6.2. <A HREF="x733.html" >Dynamic streams</A ></DT ><DT >6.3. <A HREF="x745.html" >Geographic sources</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ><P >Data sources are of course more important that the tools you can use. And specially the quality of those data.</P ><P >We can classify two big types of data here :</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P ><EM >Environment data</EM ></P ><P >Data which dont change often like airport position (even if I have see airport jumps in data sometimes ;-). It's called also static or semi-static data.</P ></LI ><LI ><P ><EM >Dynamic data</EM ></P ><P >Data which change very often like flight position or traffic load in a controlled sector.</P ></LI ></UL ><P >Usually, the second type is computed with the help of the first one, so it's very important to take care of the accuracy of the environment data : right geographic location (lat,long), up-to-date semi-static data according to an activity (current capacity of an airport), or even new performance data for a new aircraft.</P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x654.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x714.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >NeoKit</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Environment</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >