Aviation Museum Userpoints for Little NavMap (over 500 worldwide) v1.0
AVIATION MUSEUM USERPOINTS FOR LITTLE NAVMAP
by August (K5083)
v1.0
This is a database of over 500 aviation museums, aircraft restoration shops, and fly-in sites that you can import into Little Navmap for use with MS Flight Simulator or any other flight sim that LNM supports. The purpose is to help find places to fly vintage and warbird aircraft, whether for display, for maintenance, or just to visit with other vintage aircraft owners. Note that for the most part, these facilities do not really exist in the sim, unless you have a good add-on airport, so don’t expect to see much besides maybe a vaguely correctly shaped building when you get there. These are just the markers, intended to lend a purpose to your route planning.
In most cases, I located the exact spot where the aviation museum or restoration shop is. This means you can zoom in after landing and taxi to the correct place.
The aviation museums are of all kinds: static and flying, on-airport and off, civil and military. Details on my logic for which museums to include and exclude are provided with the mod in a readme file.
HOW TO INSTALL
This mod contains a folder called Database and a folder called Icons. The icons need to go in the parent folder of your LNM databases, which is named ABarthel. The easiest way to get there is to go the Tools menu, hover over Files and Directories, and click Show Database Files in the drop-down. Then, go up one level to the parent ABarthel folder in Windows Explorer. Just put the .png files in this folder.
To see if you put the .png files in the right place, restart Little Navmap, select the View menu, and hover over Userpoints. You should see the new icons and userpoint categories in the drop-down. Make sure to select the new categories so that they are highlighted and will appear on the map.
The .csv file from the Database folder should go wherever you have Little Navmap set to look for your userpoints databases. If you open the Userpoints menu and select “Import CSV …” it will open an Explorer dialog box that will show you where it is looking. Either put the .csv file there, or browse using this dialog box to wherever you put it. You only have to load this database once. It then becomes part of your personal userpoints database which is saved on exit.
Acknowledgements
I did not realize how to create new userpoint types for LNM, just by dropping an icon with the right kind of filename in the ABarthel folder, until I found NCHawk5018’s LittleNavMap Userpoint Icons mod. That really inspired this project.
Thanks to Alexander Barthel for the brilliant Little Navmap app.
I made extensive use of the Aviation Museums of the World site, https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/, in researching these userpoints.
