Google Earth

[kevinsky18]

Is there any way to make all airports highlight or stand out in Google Earth?

I love using this program for planning ultra long x-countries but unless you know that an airport exist in a certain spot it's difficult to find them. especially small out of the way airports.

[srobarts]

The database in this thread has some 10,000+, might be a bit busy tho!
Airport Database (slightly crazy) - Google Earth Community (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=184700&site_id=1#import)

[green granite]

Under transportation in the side bar you can tick the airport box, but it only shows major ones that handle passenger flights, I suspect that's not what your after.

Other than that all you can do is spend a long time going over the country or feed in the lat/long from one of the publications or from a chart, putting markers on each airfield as you find them.

[seacue]

Some years ago I wrote a program which converts a text file list of

lat long name

to a KML file. Just double-click on the KML file to place the
points on Google Earth.

I've uploaded the program, sample data and KML results to my web site.

air2kml.zip (http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/air2kml.zip)

I haven't used the program for a long time, so YMMV (or YKMV).
They've updated the Google Earth data so some of my marks are out of date.

seacue

[kevinsky18]

THANKS!!! Wow that's exactly what I was after. :ok: