Tag Archives: OurAirports

The Aerodrome of Democracy

Posted on June 21, 2008 by David Megginson

As I mentioned in a previous post, OurAirports now lets you invent your own tags for airports and view maps of the airports you’ve tagged. This morning, I made a map of 60 of the airports that were part of … Continue reading →

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Tagging airports

Posted on June 20, 2008 by David Megginson

In OurAirports, you can now tag airports any way you want, rather than just marking them as visited, and see a map for any tag. Here are two examples: Canadian customs airports of entry (my tag “airport-of-entry”) Update: expanded to … Continue reading →

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Where can I land that float plane?

Posted on June 12, 2008 by David Megginson

OurAirports is getting better at filtering. While the maps still show everything, you can now filter most of the lists to show any of the following: active land airports, airports with scheduled airline service, seaplane bases, or everything, including heliports, … Continue reading →

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Scheduled airline service

Posted on June 11, 2008 by David Megginson

When pilots think of an airport, they think of anywhere they can safely and legally land their planes. It might or might not have a a fence, pavement, fuel pumps, or any structures at all (even an outhouse), much less … Continue reading →

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OurAirports at DemoCamp Ottawa

Posted on May 24, 2008 by David Megginson

I’ll be giving a short demo of OurAirports at DemoCamp Ottawa 9 next Monday (26 May 2008). Feel free to drop by if you’re in town. It’s at The Velvet Room in the ByWard Market, starting at 7:00 pm.

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OurAirports: terrain view

Posted on February 18, 2008 by David Megginson

A couple of months ago, Google Maps quietly added a Terrain layer to their maps. I’ve enabled that in OurAirports now, so that you can get at least a rough idea of the terrain around an airport (or in a … Continue reading →

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Data wants to be free

Posted on February 2, 2008 by David Megginson

I’ve finally gotten around to adding free data downloads to OurAirports. You can now download nightly CSV-formatted data dumps of all the airports, countries, and regions in OurAirports at http://www.ourairports.com/data/ These will open with most spreadsheet and database programs (make … Continue reading →

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OurAirports: heliports and floatplane bases

Posted on January 17, 2008 by David Megginson

OurAirports now includes heliports and floatplane bases as well as fixed-wing airports: in the last 24 hours I’ve added 828 floatplane bases and 5,911 heliports, all from Canada and the U.S. (and a couple of U.S. dependencies like Guam). Here’s … Continue reading →

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Add local places to airports

Posted on January 12, 2008 by David Megginson

Any logged-in member can now add placemarks to the map for local spots at an airport (FBOs, visitor parking, fuel, restaurant, customs, or whatever), and more importantly, anyone — even Anonymous Flyers — can comment on those spots. Take a … Continue reading →

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OurAirports map on your blog or web page

Posted on August 21, 2007 by David Megginson

Just like Google Maps, OurAirports now has a couple of easy ways to include your personal airport map in a blog posting or web page, YouTube-style: (easy) Click on the “Share this map” link at the top right of the … Continue reading →

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