Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by ArashPartow » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 3:56 AM UTC

Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World
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Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by badminton1 » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:31 AM UTC

I think China has more airports than the ones listed in the site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_China#/med...

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by ArashPartow » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:46 AM UTC

badminton1 wrote: post #2

I think China has more airports than the ones listed in the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_China#/med...

Thank-you for that link. I will be updating the DB in the coming month and China is one of the countries to have updated entries.

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by thriftwy » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:54 AM UTC

It doesn't have Moscow Domodedovo. That's number ten maybe in europe's top100, with 30 mln passengers actually. What use does this DB have with holes like these? F for effort.

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by fludlight » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 6:55 AM UTC

Anyone have a free/inexpensive source for regularly updated airport pairs for scheduled airline flights?

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by twelvechairs » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 7:48 AM UTC

fludlight wrote: post #5

Anyone have a free/inexpensive source for regularly updated airport pairs for scheduled airline flights?

Wikipedia?

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by edshiro » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 7:50 AM UTC

Great stuff! I was working on a project where we needed a database of all airports around the world. I used http://ourairports.com/data/ IIRC. Out of curiosity, what's different in your project? Also, would be good to add the type of airport (e.g. airfield, airport, etc.).

Best of luck!

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 7:51 AM UTC

thriftwy wrote: post #4

It doesn't have Moscow Domodedovo. That's number ten maybe in europe's top100, with 30 mln passengers actually. What use does this DB have with holes like these? F for effort.

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Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by jka » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 8:20 AM UTC

OpenFlights also has great data[0] here - and not just for airports, but also train stations, airline/carrier codes, and routes (i.e. origin/destination pairs with a carrier).

No sign of schedules from them yet, but there's been a request-for-interest on the site regarding those for a few years now.

[0] - https://openflights.org/data.html

Re: Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World

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Post by stevekemp » Tue, Nov 28, 2017, 8:21 AM UTC

fludlight wrote: post #5

Anyone have a free/inexpensive source for regularly updated airport pairs for scheduled airline flights?

If you're only interested in "local" data then you might be able to obtain it via a software radio.

I have a cheap USB receiver hooked up to my PC so I can watch the aircraft "overhead" in real-time. Annoyingly it loses the signal when the aircraft get too low, so I cannot see them landing.