On July 18th I posted about a competition that is currently being run by IdealGovernment.com in the UK. The contest aims to find the best map-mashup that pulls together publicly accessible UK data. The first entry in that contest features World-Airport-Codes.com's addition of plotting the airport location on a Google Map in each airport code listing. Check out an example of Thailand's Bangkok airport here. A cool feature on this site is the ability to run a distance calculator between two world airports. The result is plotted on Google Maps and even shows you approximate flying time on various aircraft. (Please remind me to *not* fly on a Cessna SkyHawk from Toronto to Bangkok - 59hrs, 44mins!) IdealGovernment has decided to feature the list of UK's top airports from this service as an entrant in their contest. Interested in entering the contest? Check here.
[via]
2 comments:
Hum, I've been "surprised" to "discover" an airport in Juan Les Pins on the French Riviera (I've lived in Juan, and never heard of an airport) and not find the second airport of France in number of passengers : Nice - Côte d'Azur (Gmaps link), at 15 Km from Juan Les Pins.
Another mistake, still in France: the Aérogare des Invalides (with no Lat/Long) is actually a bus station of Air France in the center of Paris (Gmaps link), not an Airport.
I hope other informations are more valid.
To be noticed that Google Earth has a list of Airports (check box in Layers), not showing the same mistakes.
I'm working on list of all airports worldwide. All shown on maps. It will be large airports, but also regional landingsstrips. See:
http://www.2travel2.nl/Kaarten/Vliegvelden/
Post a Comment