http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/04/getting-there-2 Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:22:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/04/getting-there-2#comment-11973 kirk mccarty Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:59:45 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/04/getting-there-2#comment-11973 today is 10/16/06. what happened to runway finder? it is very much missed. kirk today is 10/16/06. what happened to runway finder? it is very much missed. kirk

]]> http://blog.xcski.com/2006/01/04/getting-there-2#comment-1566 Land and Hold Short » Web site: Runway Finder Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:02:40 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2006/01/04/getting-there-2#comment-1566 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

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