[Talk-us] Where to find airport information?

Elliott Plack elliott.plack at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 15:39:26 UTC 2016


You can check ouraiports.com. It is a PD source that has been used for an
OSM import in the US:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue    search for airport





On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:45 PM Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
wrote:

> Montana, like many western state, need help in rural areas. I have been
> wondering about an outreach program with local ag extensions, or Future
> Farmers of America, 4H, Boy Scouts, etc. I attended a small county fair
> last year. The local Future Farmers did a demo of remote subs they using to
> map ocean floors. It was part of a NASA (I think) program to get kids
> interested in science.
>
> Clifford
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang at lyxys.ka.sub.org
> > wrote:
>
>> * Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us> [160306 16:14]:
>> > The first example you provided is located in Stillwater County, Montana.
>> > Stillwater has gis data available, but unfortunately for me requires
>> > Microsoft Silverlight browser plugin which I am not able to run. I would
>> > check the county gis database for more information. The website is
>> > http://www.stillwater.mt.gov/GIS/default.asp
>>
>> Silverlight is a no-go for me as well, I don't think it even exists
>> for my operating system.
>>
>> > There is even someone you could contact. I find most county gis
>> departments
>> > usually more than willing to help, especially if you ask nice. Even in
>> > counties without free data, they might be able to provide you with the
>> name
>> > of the runway.
>>
>> I will contact them as soon as I'm done with cleaning up TIGER geometries
>> in the area, because I have a few more questions (e.g. roads that look
>> a lot like residential roads, but with no name given on TIGER).
>> Thanks for the contact!
>>
>> > Have you contacted the user? While it looks like a runway, I'm not
>> certain
>> > that it is. Although, not sure what else it could be.
>>
>> Well, the user would be myself in this case, and I added these things
>> as runways because that is what they look like.
>>
>> > FWIW - I used to live in Montana and am familiar with parts of the
>> state.
>>
>> Great, so there are at least a few people in the project familiar
>> with Montana. I've been there only a few times as a tourist, and I
>> have been working on cleaning up TIGER geometries for Montana
>> basically because (almost) no-one else did. My hope is that we
>> find more mappers if one can start mapping without having to clean
>> up a lot of broken data first.
>>
>> Wolfgang
>>
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