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OurAirports

Community airport, runway, and navaid records for building aviation directories and map layers from a nightly public-domain CSV.

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At a glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Tiny · 0.01–0.05 GB
Formats
CSV
Access
Download
API key
Not required
Provider
OurAirports
Updates
Daily
Data terms
Public Domain

From source to product signal

Test a product idea in four steps

OurAirports publishes a nightly airports.csv covering worldwide aerodromes. Start with large airports in one country. Community coordinates and names can be incomplete, and the file is not an official aeronautical chart.

1

Check the setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • A notebook environment such as Jupyter or Google Colab
  • An internet connection
2

Access the data

  1. 1.Open the data page and note the public-domain terms.
  2. 2.Download airports.csv from the published GitHub Pages mirror.
  3. 3.Filter to one ISO country and large airports before mapping.
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3

Run the Python example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install pandas

import pandas as pd

airports = pd.read_csv(
    "https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv"
)
us_large = airports[
    (airports["iso_country"] == "US")
    & (airports["type"] == "large_airport")
]
print(
    us_large[
        ["ident", "name", "municipality", "latitude_deg", "longitude_deg"]
    ].head()
)
4

Test a useful signal

Map large U.S. airports from the public-domain dump

Test whether OurAirports can power a bounded aviation directory layer.

  1. 01Keep ident, name, municipality, and coordinates for U.S. large airports.
  2. 02Count missing municipalities before plotting.
  3. 03Explain that community airport records are not a substitute for official NASR or AIP charts.

Dataset details

OurAirports is a community source. Last verified 2026-08-18. Temporal coverage: continuously updated community airport records.

Theme

Geospatial & Infrastructure

Domains

AviationTransportationMapping

Data types

TabularGeospatial

Tasks

Directory SearchGeographic AnalysisInfrastructure Mapping

Geography

Global

Formats

CSV

Provider

OurAirports

Data terms

Public Domain