The AIXM Validation Suite is built on the Annea AIXM Reader library, providing high-performance streaming AIXM parsing, feature indexing, relation extraction, validation and geometry processing capabilities.
Professional-grade web tools for validating, comparing, and managing AIXM datasets with precision and confidence.
Transform complex AIXM dataset validation from a time-consuming, error-prone manual process into a streamlined, automated workflow. Built specifically for AIS/AIM specialists, the AIXM Validation Suite ensures your aeronautical data meets AIXM specification requirements while dramatically reducing validation time and eliminating costly errors.
The AIXM Validation Suite is built on the Annea AIXM Reader library, providing high-performance streaming AIXM parsing, feature indexing, relation extraction, validation and geometry processing capabilities.
AIXM (Aeronautical Information Exchange Model) datasets are the backbone of modern aeronautical information management. Ensuring these datasets are structurally correct, semantically valid, and internally consistent is critical for aviation safety and regulatory compliance. Manual verification of schema compliance, UUID uniqueness, feature relationships, and timeslice integrity is notoriously complex and time-consuming.
The Annea AIXM Validation Suite eliminates these risks by providing instant, comprehensive validation with detailed reporting. What traditionally takes hours of manual checking and cross-referencing now takes seconds - with complete audit trails and exportable results in multiple formats.
A comprehensive set of specialized applications designed to handle every aspect of AIXM dataset management - from validation and comparison to viewing, merging, and splitting. Each tool integrates seamlessly with your existing AIS/AIM workflows while maintaining the highest standards of precision and compliance.
The Problem: AIXM datasets must conform to strict schema rules, contain unique UUIDs, maintain valid feature relationships, and have properly structured timeslices. Manually verifying all these aspects across thousands of features is practically impossible without automated tools.
The Solution: Comprehensive automated validation that analyzes your entire dataset in a single workflow, performing multiple check categories simultaneously and providing prioritized issue reports with detailed context for each problem.
Real-World Impact: Acts as your first line of defense in the data quality workflow. Instead of discovering AIXM issues late in the publication process, catch everything upfront and fix problems before they cascade through your systems.
The Problem: Geometry issues in AIXM datasets - invalid coordinates, self-intersecting polygons, malformed GML structures, and topology violations - can cause critical failures in downstream GIS systems, flight planning tools, and AIP production workflows. These spatial errors are invisible to standard XML validators and require dedicated geometry processing to detect.
The Solution: A focused geometry validation tool that analyzes the spatial content of AIXM features, detecting coordinate errors, shape validity issues, and GML structure problems. Provides structured per-check results with feature-level context for efficient issue resolution.
Use Case: Essential for organizations that generate or receive AIXM geometry data - validates that all spatial content is geometrically correct and standards-compliant before it enters production or downstream systems.
The Problem: When datasets change between AIRAC cycles or after data corrections, you need to know exactly what changed. Manually comparing two AIXM snapshots to identify added, removed, and modified features - especially at the timeslice level - is extremely time-consuming and error-prone.
The Solution: Instant side-by-side comparison of two AIXM snapshots with automatic detection of all changes, from high-level feature counts down to individual property modifications within timeslices.
Use Case: Essential for AIRAC cycle management, data correction verification, and audit documentation when you need to prove exactly what changed between two versions of your aeronautical database.
The Problem: AIXM data in its raw XML form is difficult to interpret. Understanding feature structures, navigating relationships between features, and inspecting timeslice details requires specialized knowledge and typically desktop tools.
The Solution: A powerful web-based viewer that transforms complex AIXM data into human-readable formats, with advanced navigation, filtering, and visualization capabilities.
Use Case: The go-to tool for AIM data analysts who need to understand, explore, and verify AIXM data content without wading through raw XML. Compare features across multiple dataset versions side by side. See the full Light vs Pro comparison.
The Problem: Understanding the geographic distribution and spatial relationships of AIXM features requires loading data into desktop GIS tools or specialized aviation software - a slow, complex process that puts spatial inspection out of reach for many AIM teams.
The Solution: A browser-based, map-centric viewer that renders AIXM features directly on an interactive map, enabling instant spatial inspection, multi-dataset overlay, and geometry quality review without any software installation.
Use Case: Ideal for spatial QA reviews, pre-publication checks, and cross-dataset geographic comparison. Quickly assess whether AIXM geometry data looks correct on the map before committing to production.
The Problem: Extracting structured, human-readable reports from AIXM datasets - aerodrome summaries, navaid lists, airspace inventories, restricted area catalogues - typically requires custom development or manual data extraction, making regular reporting a time-consuming burden.
The Solution: A flexible, template-based report generation tool that transforms AIXM data into structured tabular and document outputs using predefined or custom report templates, with no coding required.
Use Case: Automates recurring reporting tasks for AIM teams - from generating AIP amendment summaries to producing feature inventories for regulatory submissions or operational reviews.
The Problem: Downstream systems - GIS platforms, flight planning tools, safety nets, and operational displays - rarely consume AIXM XML directly. Converting AIXM data to formats like GeoJSON, KML, or Shapefile requires custom development or expensive proprietary tools.
The Solution: A configurable AIXM-to-GIS converter that transforms AIXM features into industry-standard geospatial formats using reusable converter configurations, with no coding required.
Use Case: Bridges AIXM data into the broader geospatial ecosystem - enabling direct consumption in QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth, and operational systems without custom integration development.
The Problem: Generating AIXM update packages - corrections, supplements, and incremental changes expressed in the correct AIXM timeslice format - is technically demanding. Manually authoring PERMDELTA or TEMPDELTA timeslices for large change sets is error-prone and time-consuming.
The Solution: A structured tool for generating AIXM update packages from change definitions, producing correctly formed timeslices with proper sequence numbers, valid times, and interpretation codes.
Use Case: Streamlines the production of AIXM amendment and correction packages for AIM specialists responsible for maintaining aeronautical databases across AIRAC cycles.
The Problem: Combining data from multiple sources - whether from different originators, regional datasets, or incremental updates - requires careful merging to avoid duplicates, resolve conflicts, and maintain data integrity.
The Solution: Intelligent dataset merging with configurable options, pre-merge assessment, and detailed reporting of merge decisions.
Use Case: Perfect for consolidating regional datasets, integrating third-party data contributions, or combining incremental updates into a master dataset.
The Problem: Large AIXM datasets often need to be broken down - whether to extract specific feature types for focused analysis, create subsets for testing, or distribute portions to different teams or systems.
The Solution: Flexible dataset splitting with multiple modes and granular selection options, producing valid AIXM output files.
Use Case: Essential for creating test datasets, extracting specific data domains for analysis, or preparing data subsets for different downstream systems.
The Problem: Editing AIXM features directly in raw XML is error-prone and requires deep schema knowledge. Correcting individual feature properties, managing timeslice sequences, or creating new features from scratch typically requires specialized desktop tools or custom scripting.
The Solution: A structured, schema-aware AIXM editor that provides a guided interface for loading, editing, and exporting AIXM features - with full timeslice support, baseline-assisted descriptor resolution, and change tracking.
Use Case: For AIM specialists who need to make targeted corrections to AIXM features, author new features for database population, or prepare small amendment packages without a full authoring system.
The Problem: AIXM features require RFC 4122 version 4 UUIDs for unique identification. Generating compliant UUIDs and validating existing ones - especially when preparing data or troubleshooting UUID-related validation errors - requires specialized tools.
The Solution: A lightweight utility for generating and validating version 4 UUIDs with detailed error reporting for invalid identifiers.
Use Case: Handy utility for data preparation, troubleshooting UUID validation errors, or generating compliant identifiers for new features.
The AIXM Validation Suite is built on modern web technologies ensuring reliability, performance, and accuracy:
Ensure data quality before publication, validate incoming data from originators, and maintain compliance with AIXM specifications across your aeronautical database.
Validate data exchanges between systems, verify transformation outputs, and troubleshoot integration issues with detailed inspection tools.
Establish repeatable, auditable validation processes with exportable results and clear documentation trails for regulatory compliance.
Quality-check incoming data before database ingestion, compare dataset versions, and manage data merging operations.
Test AIXM output from applications, validate generated datasets, and debug data structure issues during development.
Assess client data quality, prepare migration recommendations, and document validation findings for stakeholder reports.
The Annea AIXM Validation Suite is available through flexible subscription plans designed for organizations of all sizes. Subscribe and manage your access through the Annea Apps Portal - your central hub for all Annea applications.
All subscription tiers include regular updates, technical support, and access to new tools as they're released. Educational and research institution discounts available. UUID Tools is available free without authentication.
Getting Started: Register at the Apps Portal to start your free trial or subscribe. Organizations can create team accounts and manage user access directly through the portal.
Your aeronautical data is sensitive - we designed the AIXM Validation Suite with privacy as a core principle:
The AIXM Validation Suite seamlessly fits into existing AIS/AIM workflows:
Developed by: Annea s.r.o.
Lead Developer: Michal Kadlec
Contributors: Branislav Klco, Peter Bandura
Developed with AI assistance.
Annea s.r.o.