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Aviation Weather parsing engine. METAR & TAF
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Incorrect airport names #16

Closed Worf2340 closed 5 years ago

Worf2340 commented 5 years ago

KSFO = "International Airport", so does KLAX. They look to be defined wrong in stations.json.

devdupont commented 5 years ago

I'm currently looking for a new downloadable source for the base dataset. Also working on a script to pull data from AOPA for that info and runways, but that will only work for airports in the US.

And the data can be cleaned up in general. The airport elevation is in meters, but the runway lengths are in feet.

eagleDiego commented 5 years ago

What was the original source? I also noticed that some newer airports are not included, like LTFM.

devdupont commented 5 years ago

I believe I grabbed it from a GeoNames server in 2015/16 but the link has been lost to me

TechnicallyGio commented 5 years ago

Same with Newark

devdupont commented 5 years ago

The station list has been updated with d31ca0e using http://ourairports.com/data/ as the airport and runway data source. There are some new keys and minor value changes. For example:

{
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "country": "US",
    "elevation_ft": 13,
    "elevation_m": 4,
    "iata": "SFO",
    "icao": "KSFO",
    "latitude": 37.61899948120117,
    "longitude": -122.375,
    "name": "San Francisco International Airport",
    "note": "QSF, QBA",
    "runways": [
        {
            "ident1": "10L",
            "ident2": "28R",
            "length_ft": 11870,
            "width_ft": 200
        },
        {
            "ident1": "10R",
            "ident2": "28L",
            "length_ft": 10602,
            "width_ft": 200
        },
        {
            "ident1": "01R",
            "ident2": "19L",
            "length_ft": 8648,
            "width_ft": 200
        },
        {
            "ident1": "01L",
            "ident2": "19R",
            "length_ft": 7500,
            "width_ft": 200
        }
    ],
    "state": "CA",
    "type": "large_airport",
    "website": "http://www.flysfo.com/",
    "wiki": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Airport"
}

This is currently part of 1.1b2 pending an update to the documentation.

devdupont commented 5 years ago

Released in v1.1