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Intelligent Airspace combination


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jokoenig
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Hi,
attached you will find a picture of the "upside-down wedding cake" around EDDM. There are several class C airspaces overlapping each other. They all go up to FL100 and have different lower boundaries (3500, 4500, FL65, FL85). Now, especially in Virtual Radar, they overlap each other making the VR view rather confusing. Where they overlap, the airspace has a deeper blue. So, the rule "1 color, 1 airspace" is not fulfilled.

Also, the whats here menu is filled up with lots of repeating information.

Suggestion: Intelligent filtering
1. Only show the strictest airspace (when theres E and C, only show C).
2. When airpaces are touching and have the same name ("München Class C"), make one big blob out of them.
3. Do the same for VR and Whats here menu.

Thanks and Regards,
Johnny


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Tim Dawson
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You will probably like the forthcoming SkyDemon 3 chart style, which has been written about here and previewed on our Facebook page.

It is not practical for us to selectively omit pieces of airspace from the What's Here menu in the way you describe, sorry. Your items 1 and 3 read as identical suggestions, to my mind. We do not show duplicate items, but where there are several layers of airspace defined in the AIP, one starting at 4000, one starting at FL65, both ending at FL100 (as an example) then they both exist at that point. I accept that we could detect this and show it as one entry, but I think that would be a worse experience for the user because they would lose the current ability to go in and explore the details of BOTH pieces of airspace, at which point each one is clearly highlighted on the map showing its exact lateral dimensions. If we merged them in the manner you describe, this ability would be gone.

It is not the goal of our high contrast chart style to merge airspaces; the goal of that chart style is to present them in a way that is clear in bright sunshine on dim devices where contrast is not so good.
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