New online airport locator & single-PDF A/FD

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Hello,

Long time lurker, first-time (I think) poster. I wanted a little more
modern airport locator than I was able to find on the web, so I wrote
one myself. If you enter a street address in the US or Canada, it'll
show you the nearest public-use airports with links to airport
information (i.e. airnav), driving directions, a pan/zoomable Google
map, etc.

Also, I use a tablet PC when flying, and I wanted to be able to carry
electronic copies of the official A/FD with me. You can download
individual pages/airports from the FAA website, but I couldn't find
anywhere to obtain full volumes. So I wrote a script to concatenate
all the pages from the FAA site and glob them together into a single
PDF file per volume. The files are quite huge (roughly 10 to 50 MB
for each volume), so they take a while to download, but I like to be
able to have the full A/FD for nearby regions on my tablet. Just be
patient when downloading and don't even try it on a slow connection.

Anyway, feel free to use these tools - they're available here:

http://www.linear-innovations.com/tools.shtml

Hopefully this post isn't considered spamming. I'm not selling
anything and don't gain anything by you using these tools (in fact, it
eats up my web server bandwidth), so I don't think this post is
inappropriate. I actually got the idea for concatenating the A/FD
PDFs from a discussion on this newsgroup a couple years ago found via
google, which is one reason I'm returning the favor by providing the
link here.

If you do use the tools and have any suggestions, I'd love to hear
them. Not promising I'll implement them, but I'd still be
interested. Either post here or reply via email.

Thanks,
Steve Lin

P.S. It goes without saying, but please don't use any information on
the linked site for navigational purposes; I don't make any warranty
about the information being complete, up-to-date, etc. In other
words, don't sue me if you rely on the data you get from my site!

[pbuck]

Steve, you might also check out nacomatic.com, which groups A/FD info
by state -- a bit smaller than your solution. Also, there is
maps.avnwx.com which is another google mashup of airports, including
weather.

[Andrew Sarangan]

On Apr 18, 3:36 pm, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Long time lurker, first-time (I think) poster. I wanted a little more
> modern airport locator than I was able to find on the web, so I wrote
> one myself. If you enter a street address in the US or Canada, it'll
> show you the nearest public-use airports with links to airport
> information (i.e. airnav), driving directions, a pan/zoomable Google
> map, etc.
>
> Also, I use a tablet PC when flying, and I wanted to be able to carry
> electronic copies of the official A/FD with me. You can download
> individual pages/airports from the FAA website, but I couldn't find
> anywhere to obtain full volumes. So I wrote a script to concatenate
> all the pages from the FAA site and glob them together into a single
> PDF file per volume. The files are quite huge (roughly 10 to 50 MB
> for each volume), so they take a while to download, but I like to be
> able to have the full A/FD for nearby regions on my tablet. Just be
> patient when downloading and don't even try it on a slow connection.
>
> Anyway, feel free to use these tools - they're available here:
>
> http://www.linear-innovations.com/tools.shtml
>
> Hopefully this post isn't considered spamming. I'm not selling
> anything and don't gain anything by you using these tools (in fact, it
> eats up my web server bandwidth), so I don't think this post is
> inappropriate. I actually got the idea for concatenating the A/FD
> PDFs from a discussion on this newsgroup a couple years ago found via
> google, which is one reason I'm returning the favor by providing the
> link here.
>
> If you do use the tools and have any suggestions, I'd love to hear
> them. Not promising I'll implement them, but I'd still be
> interested. Either post here or reply via email.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Lin
>
> P.S. It goes without saying, but please don't use any information on
> the linked site for navigational purposes; I don't make any warranty
> about the information being complete, up-to-date, etc. In other
> words, don't sue me if you rely on the data you get from my site!

Looks great! Thanks for making it available.

Not only is this appropriate, this is exactly the type of things that
should be here.

[Blueskies]

> On Apr 18, 3:36 pm, wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Anyway, feel free to use these tools - they're available here:
>>
>> http://www.linear-innovations.com/tools.shtml
>>
>> Hopefully this post isn't considered spamming. I'm not selling
>> anything and don't gain anything by you using these tools (in fact, it
>> eats up my web server bandwidth), so I don't think this post is
>> inappropriate. I actually got the idea for concatenating the A/FD
>> PDFs from a discussion on this newsgroup a couple years ago found via
>> google, which is one reason I'm returning the favor by providing the
>> link here.
>>
>> If you do use the tools and have any suggestions, I'd love to hear
>> them. Not promising I'll implement them, but I'd still be
>> interested. Either post here or reply via email.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steve Lin
>>
>

The AF/D for east central loads up but there is no data after the intro & legend...

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On Apr 20, 9:24*am, "Blueskies" > wrote:
> The AF/D for east central loads up but there is no data after the intro & legend

Thanks for noticing that! I've fixed that issue and will modify the
script to make sure it doesn't happen next time around.

Thanks to the other posters for the other interesting links.
Certainly part of that nacomatic.com site does pretty much the same as
what I did with the A/FD. If I'd had known about that site before, I
probably wouldn't have spent the time on that part of mine!

Steve Lin