JOSS Review: access to NM AIRAC data not clear

[xoolive]

JOSS Review: access to NM AIRAC data not clear

[xoolive]

Thank your for the extensive feedback and for pointing at such dark corners of the documentation!

How does it fail for you? Do you have a proper error message suggesting to edit the configuration file? Do you mean you would like to see the link to the documentation page in the exception or do you mean it would be better to add this link in the quickstart page? or both?

[espinielli]

I think it would be good to mention the link in the Quick Start documentation.

[espinielli]

If I run

from traffic.data import nm_airspaces
nm_airspaces['LFBOTMA']

I get

---

RuntimeError Traceback (most recent call last)
in
1 from traffic.data import nm_airspaces
----> 2 nm_airspaces['LFBOTMA']

~/kaos/traffic/traffic/data/airspaces/eurocontrol_nm.py in getitem(self, name)
120
121 if not self.initialized:
--> 122 self.init_cache()
123
124 list_names = self.airspaces.get(name, None)

~/kaos/traffic/traffic/data/airspaces/eurocontrol_nm.py in init_cache(self)
35
36 if self.nm_path is None:
---> 37 raise RuntimeError(msg)
38
39 are_file = next(self.nm_path.glob("Sectors_*.are"), None)

RuntimeError: Edit file /Users/espin/Library/Application Support/traffic/traffic.conf with NM directory

which clearly says to properly edit your config directory, but at this stage of the QS you do not even have any idea about the airspace data, hence a link to the relevant section in the docs would be beneficial...

[xoolive]

Added a warning block at this stage of the documentation with the relevant link. Thanks for pointing at it!