The NOTAM maps have all been updated to use OpenStreetmaps. Underlying the change is a series of updates to the database that I've been holding back for a few years. It might go wrong, bear with me... Let me know if it does, please.

Some new things you can do:

• There is a new item on the main menu - preferences.
    Here you can change your preferences in the same way you can by going to 'my account', then 'edit'. Hopefully, this way is easier. I will withdraw the 'my account' settings in the near future.
• Set up the sites you see on your maps.
   Sites may be displayed by default, be hidden with the chance t reveal then, or to ignored completely.
• Have more comprehensive control over which NOTAMs you see on the maps.
   For example, you could set 'kite flying' NOTAMs to be included in the main set, or to be separated, with the opportunity to hide or reveal them on the maps.
• See cancelled, or expired NOTAMS.
    These are available via the 'Expired NOTAMs' menu item on the left of the page. The storing of old NOTAMs only started during the last day or two, so there isn't much to see at the moment. Eventually there will be six months' worth of expired NOTAMS.

As you will have noticed, the NOTAM maps don't work properly. (Actually they're OK, just rather murky - click the 'OK' button and they'll function just fine). This is due to 'Do No Evil' Google being a bit, er, evil. They're starting to charge for maps. They also appear to be charging 2 or 3 times for every map issued. This complicates things somewhat. My statistics indicate about 16,000 maps were issued by this website in November, but Google have issued dummy invoices for 49,000 maps... They now say that my 'free trial' is over, hence the error messages.

If I can't resolve this, the annual bill will be about £2,000, as far as I can tell, which would make the website cost me a load of money to run.

I'm looking at Boxmap as an alternative supplier. I've already converted all the non-NOTAM maps to use Boxmap instead of Google. Boxmap also charge, but have a higher free limit (50,000 maps per month), and the chargeable excess maps are a little cheaper. If they only charge me once per map, the problem is solved.

If anyone has mapping experience, and can recommend any other map supplier. I'm all ears. I have looked at OpenStreetMap, but they don't want high volume access.

In the meantime, please put up with the slightly dodgy maps :0)

The map pages have been modified after a request to lose all those German wind farm NOTAMs (more than 1200 of them!). All map pages now have an option to hide NOTAMs for obstacles. Similarly, if the maps contain kite flying or firework display NOTAMs, these can also be hidden.

4 Jul 2018: European-style distances written with decimal commas, eg '3,5NM', are now recognised correctly.

Can I restate once more that this web site is not the official source of NOTAMs; it merely takes the official sources, and displays them in human-readable form. If you want to raise a NOTAM, or query one, then please contact the official source, not myself, thanks.

eg for the UK, the addresses are at the top of every briefing, viz:

UK Aeronautical Information Service (NATS)
Website: www.ais.org.uk
Email: eg_notamprop@ead.eurocontrol.int
UK AIS Telephone: +44 (0)1489 612488

Please do get in touch with me if you think that I'm displaying a NOTAM incorrectly - that is under my control.

PS Some of you are not receiving emails again. I am aware of this problem, and am trying to sort it out permanently.

a) Three new countries have been added: Italy, Sweden and Cyprus. Due to performance issues with the UK AIS web site, these countries may have their NOTAMs sourced from the FAA. Later on, some other countries may also be sourced from there. Airspace for northern Cyrus is a guess, based on sparse documentation. If anyone has a reliable source for this, please let me know, via the 'contact' page.

b) A bug has been fixed whereby NOTAMs for unexpected FIRs (those outside the country's jurisdiction) were always regarded as 'new', regardless of creation date.

c) Previously, if the AIS website failed to deliver NOTAMs, this program deleted the 'missing' ones. They were then reinstated on a later successful transaction. This resulted in NOTAMs being marked as 'new' .This will no longer happen.

d) Users with country of 'Spain and Portugal' have had their country changed to 'Spain', unless they had an email ending in '.pt', in which case they have been changed to 'Portugal' Some of these will be incorrect, but it will make no difference - they will still see the combined Iberia map. Similarly, users in Belgium and the Netherlands have had their country changed to 'Netherlands', unless their email ended '.be'.

e) The 'latest briefing' page has been changed. You can now view the briefings for any of the countries covered by this web site from the one page. Also available is the briefing history; all NOTAM briefings from the last month are now viewable.

f) A long-standing bug, whereby some people received two emails during busy slots (6/7/8am) has been squashed.

Austria and Switzerland are now available on the international maps. Italy will be the next country to be added.