There is also ...data/Airports/apt.dat.gz which is a list of all the
airports and runways in clear text once you uncompress it.
Regards,
Curt.
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 2:43 pm, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > I'm running linux (just to clarify the following....)
> >
> > I'm trying to get the lat & long of all installed airports. So far I've
> > reduced to this:
> >
> > for apt in `find Airports -name *threshold.xml` ; do basename $apt
> > .threshold.xml; done
> >
> > This returns a list of airport codes.
> >
> > Then I can look up the lat & long in Airpots/index.txt
> >
> > Does the index.txt file in the Airports directory list all of the
> airports
> > in the world?
> >
> > y...@selene:~/Desktop/flight$ wc Airports/index.txt
> > 25715 25715 705134 Airports/index.txt
> >
> > That's 25 thousand airports; I would hope that's a pretty complete list.
> > Would there ever be a case where an airport in a dataset is not in
> > index.txt (that's not a bug)?
>
>
> One more question:
>
> Does anyone know of a list cross-referencing ICAO and FAA (the 3 and 4
> letter private airport IDs) codes to names? I've found various lookup
> servies, but no API for accessing them and no list I can download.
>
> --Yan
>
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