Looks more like a cad drawing than a map. I'm sorry but as a rather prolific former cartographer (I've made thousands of maps for hundreds of clients) what is the goal of this map? Showing terminal locations? Where to park? Size relative to surroundings? Location of manholes? Noise compatibility?
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#32Very nicely done and very responsive. The one thing I'd love to see added is information on which airlines use which gates. I know airlines often share gates, but even knowing which gates are most likely for a given airline would be useful. In Atlanta, I like being able to fly out of a T-Gate because it has its own security checkpoint that's typically, but not always, faster than the main security checkpoint. I think…
For what it's worth, all gates in Atlanta are connected airside, so you can use that checkpoint no matter which gate you're ultimately flying out of.
If you haven't done so, it's actually quite nice to skip the Plane Train and walk between the concourses; there's a very cool collection of Zimbabwean sculpture down there between the T and A gates.
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#33I like to use airnav https://www.airnav.com/airport/
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#34Very nicely done and very responsive. The one thing I'd love to see added is information on which airlines use which gates. I know airlines often share gates, but even knowing which gates are most likely for a given airline would be useful. In Atlanta, I like being able to fly out of a T-Gate because it has its own security checkpoint that's typically, but not always, faster than the main security checkpoint. I think…
It's nice but not very responsive. We switched from leaflet (this seems to use that as well) to maplibre last year for this reason. Zooming and panning are a bit slowish.
For Fraport
> document.querySelectorAll("path").length > 5000
They might need combine/reduce the elements. Or use a canvas?
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#35Looks more like a cad drawing than a map. I'm sorry but as a rather prolific former cartographer (I've made thousands of maps for hundreds of clients) what is the goal of this map? Showing terminal locations? Where to park? Size relative to surroundings? Location of manholes? Noise compatibility?
I’m sorry but as a pilot who routinely uses airport diagrams what specific weakness are you seeing? As you are probably aware, not all maps are intended to have some beautiful aesthetic. This map is quite akin in style to the layout of airport maps (diagrams) published for actual pilot use.
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#36The official website shown for IAH is a limo company. Looks like not great web scraping. I also find this unattractive and not useful, and I love airports.
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#37Zooming in/out spams entries in your browser history. I haven’t looked but guess it’s a case of history.replace va history.push in js.
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#38Looks more like a cad drawing than a map. I'm sorry but as a rather prolific former cartographer (I've made thousands of maps for hundreds of clients) what is the goal of this map? Showing terminal locations? Where to park? Size relative to surroundings? Location of manholes? Noise compatibility?
I’m sorry but as a pilot who routinely uses airport diagrams what specific weakness are you seeing? As you are probably aware, not all maps are intended to have some beautiful aesthetic. This map is quite akin in style to the layout of airport maps (diagrams) published for actual pilot use.
As a frequent flyer on small aircraft (nearly all of one side of my family has worked in aviation: cessna, boeing, piper, beech, embraer) - this looks nothing like the charts I'm used to viewing.
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#39Now someone do this for grocery stores.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m sorry but as a pilot who routinely uses airport diagrams what specific weakness are you seeing? As you are probably aware, not all maps are intended to have some beautiful aesthetic. This map is quite akin in style to the layout of airport maps (diagrams) published for actual pilot use.
As a frequent flyer on small aircraft (nearly all of one side of my family has worked in aviation: cessna, boeing, piper, beech, embraer) - this looks nothing like the charts I'm used to viewing.
That doesn’t answer the question: what is wrong with the map? As a non pilot I can’t say that I find an airport diagram from the FAA more insightful: https://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/2302/00375AD.PDF