Public Sources of FalconView Data

Please help us out by adding to this page.

•  http://www.nga.mil/

•  http://www.nga.mil/portal/site/dnc/ - A great source of Digital Nautical Chart data for the US. This is a vector representation of the NOAA Nautical Charts. There are a few steps to get the data in the right format which I have outlined under GettingDigitalNauticalChart.

•  http://www.usgs.gov/ and  http://seamless.usgs.gov/ - The US Geological Survey publishes gigabytes of data for the United States and the World.

•  http://www.coa.gatech.edu/cgis/ - The Georgia Tech Center for GIS maintains a clearinghouse of GIS data for the State of Georgia.

•  http://www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/index.htm - Nautical data that can be imported into FalconView as Shapefiles.

•  http://geoengine.nga.mil/geospatial/SW_TOOLS/NIMAMUSE/webinter/rast_roam.html

•  http://gos2.geodata.gov/

• NACO / FAA Aeronautical Sectionals for the USA compatible with FalconView are available at the Downloads tab on this page.

• FalconView consumes elevation data in DTED format. See  http://eros.usgs.gov/#/Find_Data/Products_and_Data_Available/SRTM_DTED for downloadable elevation data.

•  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ - Includes vector data of various boundaries as well as raster maps.

See the discussion in OpenSourceQuickStart for information on using the map data manager to catalog any data you download.