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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.
Very interesting, do you have a blog post about this?
https://blog.steve.fi/tracking_aircraft_in_real_time__via_so...
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.
http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/aip.asp?pg=40&vdate=...
Unfortunately, you'll need to deal with PDFs, but they are data rich:
http://www.airservicesaustralia.com/aip/current/ersa/FAC_YSC...
This site has a total of 9300 airports. The CIA lists 13513 airports in just the US - https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...
I can't stress just how important (and how hard) it is to get a great source of data for airports, so kudos on the work! When building All the Flight Deals ( https://alltheflightdeals.com ) and BookWithMatrix ( https://bookwithmatrix.com ), airport data was essential. It seems like your database covers the basics! However, timezone data and airport type/size were pretty important information for us, so we ended up ge…
I’d love someone to finish my tool that would semi-randomly query Matrix and find “interesting” business class flights, where interesting is a ratio between price and either distance or tier points / eqm / airmiles earned.
I can't stress just how important (and how hard) it is to get a great source of data for airports, so kudos on the work! When building All the Flight Deals ( https://alltheflightdeals.com ) and BookWithMatrix ( https://bookwithmatrix.com ), airport data was essential. It seems like your database covers the basics! However, timezone data and airport type/size were pretty important information for us, so we ended up ge…
Are the deals usually pretty short lived? For example, is it possible there is only one seat at the price?
I can't stress just how important (and how hard) it is to get a great source of data for airports, so kudos on the work! When building All the Flight Deals ( https://alltheflightdeals.com ) and BookWithMatrix ( https://bookwithmatrix.com ), airport data was essential. It seems like your database covers the basics! However, timezone data and airport type/size were pretty important information for us, so we ended up ge…
Alltheflightdeals looked great, but I'm having trouble creating a subscription. Are you getting hugged to death by HN right now? The page from the confirmation email link takes very long to load and then results in an 'unexpected error'. When I try to create a new subscription, I'm getting a request for confirmation to 'update my settings', so the subscription seems to be saved. When I look at the page which should s…
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Don’t forget that time zone boundaries often change, so if you are going to store a “time zone” field, make sure you regularly update them. You are right about the lack of availability of complete airport data. This is true for many things aviation related, including airspace boundaries, navigation aids, etc. Basically anything you would find on a pilot’s chart. The USA is a wonderful exception as they publish a grea…
> Don’t forget that time zone boundaries often change I always thought time zones boundaries were static... TIL
The IANA Timezone Database flips the definition to be local instead of global, and attempts to define a timezone as a region in which all clocks are supposed to have agreed since the 1970 Unix Epoch [1]. Furthermore, since governments are the most frequent source of official timekeeping changes, they attempt to prevent zones from crossing international boundaries.
Typically, IANA timezones (whose geographical extent is documented in shapefiles) don't change shape, or change shape only with national borders themselves. When a country decides to change clocks only in a portion of its territory -- "splitting" an existing IANA zone -- a new zone is created for the area that does not include the city after which the zone is named. Some recent examples are the island of Cyprus [2] and a new timezone surrounding Tomsk [3] in Russia.
[1] https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html [2] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-October/024399.html [3] https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2016-April/000038...
I can't stress just how important (and how hard) it is to get a great source of data for airports, so kudos on the work! When building All the Flight Deals ( https://alltheflightdeals.com ) and BookWithMatrix ( https://bookwithmatrix.com ), airport data was essential. It seems like your database covers the basics! However, timezone data and airport type/size were pretty important information for us, so we ended up ge…
Don’t forget that time zone boundaries often change, so if you are going to store a “time zone” field, make sure you regularly update them. You are right about the lack of availability of complete airport data. This is true for many things aviation related, including airspace boundaries, navigation aids, etc. Basically anything you would find on a pilot’s chart. The USA is a wonderful exception as they publish a grea…