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# Download all current FAA sectional GeoTIFFs (zipped)
import urllib, os, csv
from lxml.html.soupparser import fromstring
FAA_CHART_URL = 'http://aeronav.faa.gov/index.asp?xml=aeronav/applications/VFR/chartlist_sect'
BASE_CONTENT_URL = 'http://aeronav.faa.gov/'
DOWNLOAD_DIR = 'download'
data = urllib.urlopen(FAA_CHART_URL).read()