When the Google Maps API was announced, David Megginson publically challenged me and other programmers to come up with a decent flight planning application that used it. Well, it’s not here yet, but RunwayFinder - a flight planning tool for pilots is getting closer. At least it’s a decent substitute for the “Nearest Airports” search in AirNav - you put in an airport id and it shows the ones in the neighbourhood as well.
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Land and Hold Short » Web site: Runway Finder says:
[...] Thanks to a posting by Paul Tomblin, I just discovered a new aviation Google-maps mashup. Normally, Google maps lets you switch among a map view, a satellite photo, and a satellite photo with map info superimposed (called a hybrid view). In this mashup, Runway Finder, an anonymous developer (”dave”) has added a view based on tiled and geo-referenced US sectional charts. So now you can go anywhere covered by US sections — including many Canadian cities — and zoom in or out, and switch among sectional, road map, and satellite views. Very nice. Unlike other free online sectional viewers, this one gives you a decent size viewing window, on top of all the Google Maps bells and whistles. [...]
January 5, 2006, 00:02 GMTkirk mccarty says:
today is 10/16/06. what happened to runway finder? it is very much missed. kirk
October 16, 2006, 16:59 GMT