Open Italian Flight Sim Data

Main Features | About The Project | Data Sources | Planned Development | Usage | Example Data | Users of Our Data | Community | License | Contact | Contributors

✨ Main Features

• 🗺️ Real-World Data: Get up-to-date VFR and IFR navigation data for airports, airfields, and waypoints in Italy. The data is in CSV format, which is easy to use.
• ✈️ Enhanced Flight Simulation: Have a more realistic flight experience with our authentic CSV data.
• 🤝 Community Driven: Our navigation data is updated by a passionate community, making sure it's accurate. All our data is stored in CSV format.
• 🗂️ Open Source: All data is free and open source, so it's transparent and easy to collaborate on. This includes our CSV formatted data.
• 🔍 Easy to Use: Our CSV data is designed to be easy to read and use.

✈️ About The Project

OpenEpops helps you have an authentic flight simulation experience in Italy. We give you a complete set of real-world VFR and IFR navigation information. This includes airports, airfields, waypoints, and more. Our goal is to give flight simulator fans free, high-quality CSV data to create the most realistic experience possible.

🗄️ Data Sources

• OpenNav: Thanks for providing open-source flight data, which is part of our large navigation database.
• Aeronovigator & Pobeda Virtual Airlines: We really appreciate their community pilots for sharing their own, private AIRAC databases. These are constantly updated for flight simulators. Created by real pilots, these databases fix common sim errors. They are very important, and we are very grateful for making this possible in Europe, where this data is hard to find for free while respecting copyrights. We also expect to add more data across Europe because of their help.
• OpenFlightMaps: Special thanks to the people in charge, especially Max Belloni and Raffaele Farina, for making most of our VFR data possible.
• X-Plane NAV810: We thank Robin A. Peel for making the first IFR data public. This was an important start for our IFR data. We found this useful data through the FlightGear community and agree with their idea of creating reusable and improvable data.
• Community-Verified Updates & Data: We appreciate the community's help, which makes our data accurate through constant updates and fixes.

🎯 Planned development

• Expand Italian Data Coverage:
• API Development:
• Data Tools:
• Interactive Web Map:
• Expand European Data Coverage:
• Support for FlightGear:

🛠️ Usage

Here are some ways you can use OpenEpops data:

1. Integrate with Flight Simulators: You can make custom navigation databases for popular flight simulators like X-Plane and FlightGear.
2. Research and Development: You can use our open data for school projects, simulations, or other things related to flying.
3. Contribute: Help us make our database bigger and more accurate.

📁 Example Data

Here's an example of the airport data we provide. Each line is an airport, with its ICAO code, type, size, name, geographic coordinates, height, region, city, and IATA code. The data is in CSV format:

ICAO,Type,Size,Name,LatitudeDeg,LongitudeDeg,Elevation(ft),RegionName,Municipality,IATA
LIRF,airport,large,Rome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport,41.804532,12.251998,13,Lazio,Rome,FCO
LIMC,airport,large,Milan Malpensa International Airport,45.6306,8.72811,768,Lombardy,Ferno (VA),MXP
LIPZ,airport,large,Venice Marco Polo Airport,45.505299,12.3519,7,Veneto,Venezia (VE),VCE
LIML,airport,medium,Milano Linate Airport,45.445099,9.27674,353,Lombardy,Segrate (MI),LIN

👥 Users of Our Data

Our data is used by these platforms:

• OurAirports

Have you used OpenEpops in your project? We'd love to show it off! Let us know and join the community.

🤝 Community

We are building a friendly community of people who love flying and creating things. Here's how you can join:

• Contribute: Help us make our CSV data bigger, improve how we do things, and create new tools.
• Report Issues: If you find any mistakes or problems in our CSV data, please open an issue on our GitHub repository.
• Share Your Projects: Show us how you are using OpenEpops and help us learn from your experiences.

⚖️ License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3).

• You can freely use, modify, and share OpenEpops data, even commercially.
• You must give credit to OpenEpops, share modified versions under GPLv3, and indicate changes made.
• The data is provided without warranty or liability.

✉️ Contact

Project Link: https://github.com/riccardomorabito/OpenEpops

🚀 Contributors