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This site hosts the details on using AIXM to meet the requirements of the EUROCAE ED-99 / RTCA DO-272 standard.

It analyses the coverage of the “User Requirements for Aerodrome Mapping Information” (ED-99/DO-272) within AIXM 5.1.1. A series of tables is provided to map the ED-99/DO-272 information items to classes, attributes and associations in the AIXM UML model, in particular the AirportHeliport package.

Before you begin you should know:

• Documents
  • EUROCAE ED99 and RTCA DO-272 are equivalent specifications. This is also true of ED-119 and DO-291.
  • The latest version of the “User Requirements for Aerodrome Mapping Information” is ED-99D/DO-272D.
  • ED-119C/DO-291C "Interchange Standards for Terrain, Obstacle, and Aerodrome Mapping Data" is also used on this page to provide e.g. enumeration. It contains the encoding to be used when realising ED-99/DO-272.
• Models
  • The latest version of AIXM is AIXM 5.1.1.
  • AMXM is a schema that can be used to exchange aerodrome mapping data. The latest version is AMXM 2.0.0.
• Correspondences
  • The correspondence tables follow a given structure. See: How to read the correspondence tables.
  • Not everything has a correspondence so extensions are required. See AIXM 5.1.1 extensions.

  • The correspondences alone will not guarantee that an ED-99 compliant Aerodrome Mapping Database is created. This can only be done by applying the data product specification rules and the complete functional and geometrical constraints within ED-99 and ED-119. See Limitations to the correspondences.