Comments on: OurAirports: heliports and floatplane bases

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:03:47 +0000

Nearly everything out of the US is from DAFIF.

I got too many complaints about the complexity of offering multiple datasources, so I combined them all. I tried to do it so that more recent or more reliable data sources overrode the less reliable ones, but in as automated a manner as possible. If I had a better source of Australian data, I’d toss out the stuff from those two guys entirely.

By: david

david — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:42:57 +0000

Paul: I did an experiment with navaid.com once, but unfortunately, I chose the Australian data, which (as you know) has issues from one of the providers and isn’t quite reliable — I know that things would have gone better if I’d chosen any other country.

Where do you get your non-North American heliport data from? Is someone collecting it for you? I might try navaid.com using only one source at once, just to be safe.

By: Paul Tomblin

Paul Tomblin — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:39:41 +0000

Why don’t you grab my navaid.com data? The DAFIF data may not be up to date, but I bet 80% or more of the airports and heliports are still there.