Index talk:Aviation

Unfortunately, removing the ANACA codes makes it very difficult to find direct neighbors, which should be responsible for 85 % of the flights. Here are some overpass links to check the intl. references of airports

• airports with ICAO code
• airports with IATA code
• airports without IATA/ICAO code
• runways with missing reference --Mstr (talk) (talk) 01:25, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Consolidating references to only use the 3-letter code was decided upon about a year ago in this forum thread. –TheMayor (talk) 02:26, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer.--Mstr (talk) (talk) 15:15, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Here is a list of all airports with their airport codes--Mstr (talk) (talk) 00:13, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
---list deleted---

This list doesn’t include airports that don’t have the 4-character code, which is no longer necessary. Additionally, I think there’s value in having a more curated list to filter out non-canon areas and the plethora of airports in blue territories that shouldn’t be considered part of the global aviation network. -TheMayor (talk) 01:44, 29 January 2023 (UTC)

I agree. Overpass can be very powerful, but as a blanket for things like this, it creates a lot of noise of things either non-canon or of dubious canonicity. We already push the limits a bit more with the territorial index pages, but those require nonstandard, OGF-specific tags to appear. — Alessa _(talk) 04:08, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Okay, now it shows all "IATA"-codes... it's rather a tool to look up all existing codes (where they are and how they are mapped)--Mstr (talk) (talk) 19:36, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

List of airports with IATA code
Name	IATA

Data Reformatting

I was wondering if I could re-format and add a column for Index:Airports.

Primary City:

• A slash (/) separator for multiple Primary cities
• Full names for states

Airport Name:

• English Name (Native name/s) or just Native Name if English isn't provided

Runway orientation and length:

• A diesis (‡) to provide comments about that particular runway

(New column) Time:

• UTC Time for that airport
• Time UTC+XX:00 (optional DST: UTC+XX:00)

I can fix these upon permission.

Thanks --Joebro (talk) 23:59, 29 December 2023 (UTC)

Is there a way to incorporate the data (runways, ...) directly from the map (overpass)? An additional column to indicate the region/continent would also be helpful. In the past the ANACA-code has served for this purpose.--Mstr (talk) (talk) 01:01, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

@Joebro: I love the idea of time zones being put in there. It has actually been my preference to eliminate a column in the long run. I'd be curious if you have thoughts on collapsing that. Also, what do you mean by comments about a runway? Here's a thought: would you be willing to mock up what it would look like here on the talk page with just two or three entries that covers these changes? I'm absolutely open to seeing what you come up with.

@mstr: Having selected data like this from Overpass is a challenge, since it would have to merge with existing data. As I mentioned above, a list of airports strictly from Overpass creates a fair amount of useless noise/clutter. As for continent/region, I'm open to having something indicate that. Let's see what Joebro does with his proposed list first, because I very much don't want to add more than one other column.

— Alessa _(talk) 05:13, 30 December 2023 (UTC)

@Alessa I'm not sure this would work with Joebro's way of retrieving the data but one way you could probably remove a column without losing information would be to set up the table where the types are separated by collapsable headings of type (global, regional, domestic). Not sure exactly what that would look like though--Ernestpkirby (talk) 19:41, 30 December 2023 (UTC)