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Old June 30th 04, 12:25 AM
Matt Whiting
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Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt

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Old June 30th 04, 01:51 AM
vincent p. norris
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I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.


Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?

vince norris
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Old June 30th 04, 02:01 AM
Michael 182
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http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt



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Old June 30th 04, 04:25 AM
Kyler Laird
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Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.


http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports


That doesn't quite qualify as "offline". The pieces are all there though.

locations for cities
http://aviationtoolbox.org/raw_data/...0/places2k.txt
airports
http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/ATA-1...ats/Apt_rf.txt
http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/ATA-1...txt?format=del

module for using the FAA ATA-100 data
http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/FAA_ATA100.py
examples
http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/FAA_ATA100_examples/

And here's some code for calculating distances.
http://aviationtoolbox.org/munge/calculate_distance.py

Is there interest in a standalone script that rolls all of this together?

--kyler
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Old June 30th 04, 06:46 AM
C J Campbell
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http://www.city-data.com/

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt



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Old June 30th 04, 02:06 PM
Kyler Laird
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Kyler Laird writes:

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.


http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports


That doesn't quite qualify as "offline".


I might have been missing something obvious to everyone else here. Did
"offline" mean "not using the GPS" and not "not using the 'net"?

--kyler
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Old June 30th 04, 02:27 PM
Peter R.
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vincent p. norris ) wrote:

I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.


Matt, why not just look at a sectional chart?


Perhaps he is interested in a potential destination city for which he does
not yet have a sectional.

The average pilot does not have sectionals for an entire country, wouldn't
you agree?


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Old June 30th 04, 04:13 PM
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"Michael 182" wrote in message
news:khoEc.1541$Oq2.134@attbi_s52...
http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports


Which links to Airnav.com since, as Kyler says "AOPA has taken steps to
ensure that their airport information isn't easily accessed (even by
members), so now I only provide links to AirNav information.".



"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt





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Old June 30th 04, 04:14 PM
Tom Sixkiller
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"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...
http://www.city-data.com/


How does that help you find "nearest airport"?


"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know if a site that provides an "offline" version of the GPS
nearest airport function? I'd like to be able to enter a given city and
find the nearest aiports to that city.

A quick net search didn't turn up anything. Well, I did find a site to
use to locate the nearest Shell station...

Matt





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Old June 30th 04, 08:08 PM
Kyler Laird
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"Tom Sixkiller" writes:

http://aviationtoolbox.org/old/nearby_airports


Which links to Airnav.com since, as Kyler says "AOPA has taken steps to
ensure that their airport information isn't easily accessed (even by
members), so now I only provide links to AirNav information.".


Does that somehow affect this situation?

--kyler
 




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