theAirDB, the global aviation database with integrated maps!

[vitoque]

Dear Aviation friends,

sorry for writing English and sorry if this is OT, but this was the most close session I could find

 

I just want to introduce my website, after a lot of research and corner work. The best way to describe it would be a World Wide database for Airlines, Airports & Routes:

 

http://www.theairdb.com

 

It has a comprehensive page for each airline with detailed information about destinations together with a Map. For example Tuifly and Ryanair:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/airline/tuifly.html

http://www.theairdb.com/airline/FR.html

 

Or per each airport, for example Cologne, Bonn and London Heathrow:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/CGN.html

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/LHR.html

 

 

or New York JFK:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/airport/JFK.html

 

Another report is the one based on countries. For example, all the Swiss airports on the map:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/country/CHE.html

 

The strongest point of the project is its high frequency news support for new routes. The DB keeps his Routes archive up to date every 5 minutes so it is able to generate a news for each route an airline make available on its booking engine:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/sub/News.html

 

Also all the news are displayed in a graphical way:

 

 

 

Since few day, there are also two big news on theairdb, filtered RSS feed and a cool Google gadget!

 

1) News filtered for country, airport, airline.

 

On top of the standard RSS feed (http://www.theairdb.com/rss/theairdb.rss), we are now proud to announce the availability of filtered feeds for country, airport, airline.

 

- Airports

 

The specific address for an airport news feed is:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_ <3 LETTERS IATA CODE, UPPER CASE>.rss

 

So, for example the feed for the Gatwick news is

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_LGW.rss

 

or Amsterdam, New Castle

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_AMS.rss

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airport_NCL.rss

 

 

- Countries

 

The specific news for a country (all the airports in a country ) is

 

http://www.theairdb.com//rss/country_ <2 LETTERS COUNTRY CODE, UPPER CASE>.rss

 

So foe example Switzerland ,United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/country_CH.rss

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/country_GB.rss

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/country_DE.rss

http://www.theairdb.com//rss/country_NL.rss

 

- Airlines

 

The rss feed for airlines is only available for airlines that are currently active in our DB (the ones in bold in http://www.theairdb.com/sub/Airlines.html)

 

The specific news for an airline is more tricky:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_<TheairDBAirlineCode-Lowcase>.rss

 

TheairDBAirlineCode is for all the airlines made of one word(Ryanair,Easyjet, etc), just their low case name (ryanair, easyjet). For airlines names made of few words you will substitute the dash to the space (air-berlin,atlantic-airways, etc). To find the name, just go to theAirDb page and go to the airline you wnat page check the address and take the .html off. For example theairdb.com/airline/aegean-airlines.html the airline code is "aegean-airlines" without quotes. Some examples:

 

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_ryanair.rss

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_germanwings.rss

http://www.theairdb.com/rss/airline_alpi-eagles.rss

 

2) Google Gadget

 

This is a very cool gadget that you can add to your iGoogle page or to your website/blog. It reports all the news in gadgetized way for your airport, airline or country.

You can check the the HTML code out (or have a preview) at:

 

theAirDB Gadget

 

Or you can add to your iGoogle, using:

 

Add to iGoogle

 

When in your page it will look like this (example filtered for Stansted news):

 

 

I'm open to suggestion, feedback, etc from who at the end is the target of this project: the people like me that are passionate about aviation: you.

 

Vito