Monthly Archives: August 2008

(Unofficial) Canadian NOTAMs via RSS

Posted on August 17, 2008 by David Megginson

I have added an experimental, alpha-quality feature to OurAirports: local Canadian Airport NOTAMs via RSS (scraped from the Nav Canada web site). If anyone is interested in trying this out, you need to visit a Canadian airport’s page on the … Continue reading →

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OurAirports can geocode (!!)

Posted on August 8, 2008 by David Megginson

Today I overhauled the search system in OurAirports to use Google’s free geocoding service. Geocoding takes an address like “Algonquin Park” or “1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC” and converts it to a latitude and longitude — it doesn’t sound like … Continue reading →

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