TM Airports

[Jim]

The other lists I've been keeping (with varying levels of effort and accuracy) that fit this overall kind of structure are Top 100 U.S. cities, Top 75 U.S. metro areas, pro baseball stadiums/ballparks, ski areas, college hockey arenas, and state/national parks.

[si404]

Cathedrals, Stations (similar to the interchanges NE2 says above), County Seats, Britain in Bloom Overall Winners, etc. The list is basically endless.

[formulanone]

I tried a file creation and pull request for the first time...hopefully this works. 

[Jim]

If I could pick the next enhancement, I think it would be the ability to specify first and most recent year of visit to each airport.

[bejacob]

The list is basically endless.

Therein lies the problem.

It's possible to take a good idea and run too far with it. I think a "go slow" mindset is worth adopting.

[mapcat]

I tried a file creation and pull request for the first time...hopefully this works. 

It did, and I added all 78 airports that weren't already in the csv. Let me guess: pilot?

[mapcat]

If I could pick the next enhancement, I think it would be the ability to specify first and most recent year of visit to each airport.

This seems doable. Are you thinking of that data going to the table only, or something on the map too? If you want a map, could something like "jt2024.alist" be useful?

[mapcat]

The list is basically endless.

Therein lies the problem.

It's possible to take a good idea and run too far with it. I think a "go slow" mindset is worth adopting.

I see this less as a problem than an opportunity for others to take the code and create something that serves their interests. If anyone is interested in discussing how to put something like this together with practically zero coding experience, send me a PM. But I don't see myself having the time to build any additional TM-adjacent sites right now.

[formulanone]

I tried a file creation and pull request for the first time...hopefully this works. 

It did, and I added all 78 airports that weren't already in the csv. Let me guess: pilot?

No, just lots of business travel (maybe 5% for vacations).

[vdeane]

Highway interchanges seems like a useful one, especially since there have been multiple AARF threads on the subject.

[Jim]

If I could pick the next enhancement, I think it would be the ability to specify first and most recent year of visit to each airport.

This seems doable. Are you thinking of that data going to the table only, or something on the map too? If you want a map, could something like "jt2024.alist" be useful?

Yes, I'm thinking of it as table-only.  Maybe be able to sort in order of first visit or reverse last visit.  I don't think that info needs to go on the map.  I like the map being simple like it is now.

[si404]

The list is basically endless.

Therein lies the problem.

That's why I pointed it out...

Highway interchanges seems like a useful one, especially since there have been multiple AARF threads on the subject.

I agree that this is the most logical 'next thing' to have a similar treatment to airports, though bejacob's point about going slow is a good one.

[Jim]

Highway interchanges seems like a useful one, especially since there have been multiple AARF threads on the subject.

I agree that this is the most logical 'next thing' to have a similar treatment to airports, though bejacob's point about going slow is a good one.

This one has the potential to fit better within the main TM highways code base.  Without thinking too much about how hard it would be, I imagine list files entries that could be expanded to allow a list of all waypoints where the user has entered or exited a route, have this information displayed with different icons on Mapview and Showroute, and various stats and rankings could be provided.

And I agree with the overall comment that there should not be a rush to expand to all of these other ideas.  An overall approach similar to what TM did in expansion to railways, where there's a common code base that ingests different sets of data, seems it would make sense. 

[mapcat]

I'm considering some different color scales and symbols for the all-airports map here: https://tmairports.teresco.org/AirportData/air/web/airports.html

Here are some ideas: https://tmairports.teresco.org/AirportData/air/web/color-scales.html

Airports with 0 A/D/L visitors will probably get a separate color to differentiate them from those with 1 visitor.

Thoughts?

[Jim]

I'm considering some different color scales ...

I'm a little partial to the TM color scaling, which you can see, for example, by going to any Mapview page and choosing "Color by Traveler Count".