Chartfox Support

[illegitimate-egg]

Aircraft Version

Experimental

Description

I'd really like to see support for Chartfox because I can't afford navigraph and would really like to use charts in the aircraft.

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Scrub Man#4699

[tracernz]

This is on the todo list. There was a limitation with the Chartfox API preventing integration in-sim last I heard, but we had reached out to them to see what could be done.

[hi1213345446231]

i'd like to see this aswell, but i wouldnt mind the ability to add the charts into a folder in the FBW folder in the comunity folder of msfs

[ErickSharp]

I tried to do this and get it into flypadosv3, but the Chartfox people have been unresponsive so we haven't been able to get a valid API key necessary to go through with this. Maybe in the future though! I'll keep my eyes peeled.

[vikingnope]

Chartfox now have API support: https://chartfox.org/developers

[tracernz]

They always had some kind of API, but it did not have the origin headers that are required to use it with anything semi-modern. Did that change?

[vikingnope]

This is what is says on the website I sent:

"We offer an API that serves ChartFox data, including charts, airport data, geo reference data and more. The API can be consumed via either OAuth 2.0 access through a user, or via a personal access token assigned to your organisation."

Also on their application they seem to be asking for server addresses:

Maybe that would be useful, not really sure though.

They have actually changed almost all of their website and they now have a Discord server and they seem quite active, maybe you can find more help now than before with regards to the API.

[BenJuan26]

Have any of the maintainers requested access on behalf of the organization since ChartFox have made some progress on their API?

If not, I would love to have API access myself to try to implement the feature, but it would be misleading to say I represent FlyByWire, even if I say I'm an open source contributor. Should I fill out the form and clarify that I'm not employed or endorsed by FlyByWire, but using the API with the intention of bringing the feature to the community?

[BenJuan26]

With the draft PR, I've taken this about as far as I can take it for now. Here are the requirements before this can be done (I'll track these in the PR description):

• API access
  • API key
  • Official documentation (I've been making educated guesses)
  • Login flow
• SimBridge support for URL-based PDF conversion

Relying on SimBridge isn't great, but from what I've seen, a lot of ChartFox charts are PDFs, and it's our only option. I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to get pdf.js to work in MSFS Avionics Framework, despite knowing that almost certainly someone else has tried and that's why we're doing it in SimBridge for local files.