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airport database
SHOW HN2017
87points
42comments
#523of 2,242 in 2017
Top 24%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
2 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Execution: 1 for, 7 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful source of airport data for developers building travel apps
From 2 comments
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…
phsource on HNOpenFlights is really awesome, we used it to build https://destigogo.com Any other tips for complete airport datasets?
destigogo on HN
Objections
Database is missing many airports, including smaller airfields and some major ones
From 4 comments
This is a small sample of airports; would be interesting to know how they were selected. > airports big and small from all around the world Well, presumably mostly big. The CIA…
FabHK on HNThis 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/fields/2053.html#us
austincheney on HNIt 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.
thriftwy on HNI think China has more airports than the ones listed in the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_China#/media/File:China_Airports.png
partycoder on HN
Coverage of airports per country is uneven, e.g. US and Germany counts differ from other sources
From 1 comment
Thank you for mentioning that! I could not believe when I saw "my" Germany so close to the US, because for Germany, this number must include every little sailplane field and a…
geff82 on HN
Lacks timezone, airport type and size fields
From 1 comment
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…
phsource on HN
Requests
Add timezone data
From 1 comment
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…
phsource on HN
Add airport type and size fields
From 1 comment
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…
edshiro on HN
Update entries for China and other countries
From 1 comment
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.
ArashPartow on HN
Questions
How were airports selected for inclusion?
From 1 comment
This is a small sample of airports; would be interesting to know how they were selected. > airports big and small from all around the world Well, presumably mostly big. The CIA…
FabHK on HN
Is Linz and Horsching airport a duplicate?
From 1 comment
From your site, "Two closest airports: At 370m apart are the Horsching International Airport and Linz Aiports in Austria." From Wikipedia, "Linz Airport, also known as Blue…
carl_dr on HN
Alternatives named
OurAirports
From 2 comments
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…
phsource on HNGreat 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…
edshiro on HN
OpenFlights
From 2 comments
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…
jka on HNI 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…
phsource on HN
OpenTravelData
From 1 comment
Opentraveldata (https://github.com/opentraveldata/opentraveldata) is generally a great source for travel related data, based mostly on Geobases and Wikipedia. Its OAG extract is…
vojnovski on HN
Wikidata
From 1 comment
Map of all airports in Wikipedia:…
rcMgD2BwE72F on HN
FlightConnections
From 1 comment
I found out about http://www.flightconnections.com/ a couple of weeks ago when a friend linked it to me. It looks like it has fairly exhaustive data on airports including all the…
scrollaway on HN