Airports

Airports data

This dataset contains locations of airports around the world.

• Source: Natural Earth

• URL

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/airports/

• Processing: transformations documented in airports_cleaning.ipynb

  • Clean file: airports_clean.geojson

%matplotlib inline

import requests
import geopandas
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

source_url = ("https://www.naturalearthdata.com/"\
              "http//www.naturalearthdata.com/"\
              "download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_airports.zip"
             )
source_url

'https://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/10m/cultural/ne_10m_airports.zip'

air = geopandas.read_file(source_url)
air.head()

	scalerank	featurecla	type	name	abbrev	location	gps_code	iata_code	wikipedia	natlscale	...	name_pl	name_pt	name_ru	name_sv	name_tr	name_vi	name_zh	wdid_score	ne_id	geometry
0	9	Airport	small	Sahnewal	LUH	terminal	VILD	LUH	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahnewal_Airport	8.0	...	None	None	None	Ludhiana Airport	None	None	None	4	1159113785	POINT (75.95707 30.85036)
1	9	Airport	mid	Solapur	SSE	terminal	VASL	SSE	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solapur_Airport	8.0	...	None	None	None	None	None	None	None	4	1159113803	POINT (75.93306 17.62542)
2	9	Airport	mid	Birsa Munda	IXR	terminal	VERC	IXR	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birsa_Munda_Airport	8.0	...	Port lotniczy Ranchi	None	None	M. O. Ranchi	None	Sân bay Birsa Munda	蘭契	4	1159113831	POINT (85.32360 23.31772)
3	9	Airport	mid	Ahwaz	AWZ	terminal	OIAW	AWZ	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahwaz_Airport	8.0	...	Port lotniczy Ahwaz	None	None	Ahwaz International Airport	Ahvaz Havalimanı	Sân bay Ahvaz	阿瓦士	4	1159113845	POINT (48.74711 31.34316)
4	9	Airport	mid and military	Gwalior	GWL	terminal	VIGR	GWL	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwalior_Airport	8.0	...	Port lotniczy Gwalior	None	None	Gwalior Airport	None	Sân bay Gwalior	瓜廖爾	4	1159113863	POINT (78.21722 26.28549)

5 rows × 36 columns

• Project airports to Web Mercator

air = air.to_crs(epsg=3857)

• Extract XY coordinates from a point GeoDataFrame

air["x"] = air.geometry.x
air["y"] = air.geometry.y

plt.scatter(air["x"], air["y"])

<matplotlib.collections.PathCollection at 0x7f093e8fae90>

air.to_file('airports_clean.geojson', driver='GeoJSON')

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Download link

[Download the airports_clean.geojson file]