tracktable.info.airports module

Module contents

class tracktable.info.airports.Airport[source]

Bases: object

Information about a single airport

iata_code

3-letter IATA airport identifier

Type:: str

icao_code

4-leter ICAO airport identifier

Type:: str

name

Human-readable airport name

Type:: str

city

City where airport is located

Type:: str

country

Country where airport is located

Type:: str

position

(longitude, latitude, altitude) position of airport

Type:: tuple

size_rank

Approximate rank among all the world’s airports

Type:: int

utc_offset

Local time zone as an offset from UTC

Type:: int

tracktable.info.airports.airport_information(airport_code)[source]

Look up information about an airport

Parameters:: airport_code (str) – ICAO or IATA code for an airport
Returns:: Airport object containing requested information.
Raises:: KeyError – no such airport

tracktable.info.airports.airport_size_rank(airport_code)[source]

Return an airport’s global rank by size

Parameters:: airport_code (str) – IATA or ICAO airport identifier
Returns:: Integer ranking. 1 is the largest, higher values are smaller.

tracktable.info.airports.airport_tier(airport_code)[source]

Return an estimated tier for an airport

We divide airports roughly into 4 tiers (chosen purely by hand) for a classification task. This function lets us retrieve the tier assigned to any given airport.

Parameters:: airport_code (str) – IATA/ICAO airport identifier
Returns:: tier1, tier2, tier3 or tier4
Return type:: String
Raises:: KeyError – no such airport

tracktable.info.airports.all_airports()[source]

Return all the airport records we have

Returns:: Unsorted list of airport objects.

tracktable.info.airports.all_airports_within_bounding_box(bounding_box)[source]

Return all the airport records we have from a given bounding box.

Parameters:: bounding_box (str) – Bounding box to return all airports from.
Returns:: Dictionary of airports from the given bounding box.

tracktable.info.airports.build_airport_dict()[source]

Assemble the airport dictionary on first access

This function is called whenever the user tries to look up an airport. It checks to make sure the table has been populated and, if not, loads it from disk.

Returns:: None

Side Effects:: Airport data will be loaded if not already in memory