Provide readable airport data for Little Navmap

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Request to provide not encrypted airport data.

Hi All,

I’m the developer of Little Navmap trying to adapt my program to MSFS 2024. This is currently not doable.

Unfortunately I noticed that the most important folder fs-base-genericairports is now an encrypted file fs-base-genericairports.fsarchive in the streaming folder and according to its size not complete.

This effectively prevents me from adapting Little Navmap to MSFS 2024.

Request to provide:

  1. fs-base-genericairports.fsarchive in a complete and not encrypted state using discrete BGL files as it is with MSFS 2020.
  2. Documentation for the BGL format or at least for the changes made in MSFS 2024.

Point one would allow me at least to continue development.
Point two would save other add-on developers and me a lot of time.

Alex

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Don’t forget to put your vote in!

As an Xbox pilot, I used Little Navmap as a backup to assist navigation for Bush Trips in MSFS-2020. It saved me from so much frustration when I was flying a plane without a glass cockpit!

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I can’t live without Little Navmap and I can’t live without using it. Very important for flying. Voting for this to be resolved.

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I agree with this request. I use LNM on almost every flight in FS2020. The decision to encrypt the data and make it stream only is the wrong design choice. The Flightsim.To community has a similar thread going.

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According to Raul of FSReborn there is a way to read all encrypted scenery via simconnect. You can get all the airport data via the simconnect facilities api.
This was confirmed by Matt Nishan of Working Title.

Feel free to contact them.

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Thank you once again for all you’ve done, your app is AMAZING, it’s downright essential, and simply unbelievable that it’s completely free.

And when I had an issue once you helped me solve it ASAP!

Vielen Dank!

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That sounds… Slow? Not sure how it would work, but building a full database like LNM does seems difficult with this method.

I voted. If Flight Simulator is truly “For the community, with the community” as Jorg has said multiple times, then one of the best single community contributions, Little Nav Map, needs to be supported.

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SimConnect is not an option because it limits navaids and airports (not sure?) around the user aircraft. Also I expect it to be slow.

Alex

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I hope they hear you, I use your tool for every flight.
Just even bought a tablet to use it on a second screen.

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what’s up with all this encryption? Asobo don’t do this!!

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Getting airport data via SimConnect is possible but very limited.

You can get only ident, region, coordinates and altitude from SimConnect. City and other names are missing. Also missing is parking, taxiways, aprons and more.

Alex

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I am using a bodge of using the database from FS2020.

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I agree completely. I have voted.

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Little Navmap, the best thing since sliced bread, is a super critical and used tool for me whilst flying with MSFS2020. - At the moment the absence of this on FS2024 is one more reason to hold back. Voted

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Adding my voice to this thread. Little Navmap is one of the best add-ons for flight sim and we would appreciate a fix to get it working as it currently does in MFS2020.

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Shame on you, Asobo.

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If some games worth $70 and more were as functional and bug-free as Little Navmap, developed only by @albar965 for free, the world would have been a much better place.

If gentlemen from Asobo love money so much (I do too!), maybe they could think why Bethesda and Valve games prosper and flourish for decades? Maybe it has something to do with mod-ability and working with the community for real?

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Little Navmap is a necessity! It’s an awesome tool that I use every flight.

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Oh no Alex… Still can’t believe how much of MSFS2024 is broken. It’s not only all the bugs and things that do not work, and the extremely bad idea of streaming everything to the point that a quick switch to an external view shows a horrible blur instead of a livery.

it’s also all the issues with encrypted info, which kills essential things like liveries and now, LNM.

What a let down.

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This simulator is going to kill off the entire community of add-on and tool developers.
I feel like there’s an intention that everything will have to go through the Marketplace and only the king’s friends will get through…
Aircraft libraries don’t work for exemple and it doesn’t seem like there’s an option to easily create new ones as we did in 2020.
I sincerely hope I’m wrong.

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