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Air Traffic Monitoring => ARTCC/FIR/TRACON Maps => Topic started by: glennla on August 22, 2007, 08:36:17 PM

Title: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: glennla on August 22, 2007, 08:36:17 PM
I have made an overlay of the runways and taxiways for KBOS that can be viewed in Google Earth (not sure if this has been done before, I didn't find anything). Attached is a snapshot. Is this useful to anyone else?
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: mono9212 on June 15, 2008, 06:49:22 PM
nice
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: JosephAlexanderb on September 11, 2008, 07:56:24 PM
Very helpful.  Many thanks.  Perhaps you might describe your technique, so that others (perhaps me) might produce a few similar charts for other sites frequently visited.
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: Squawk 7700 on September 12, 2008, 12:24:41 AM
Yeah good job! How did you do it?
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: aldo on January 30, 2009, 05:49:29 PM
good to look at but i prefer the real charts for navigation
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: wlewis06 on April 07, 2009, 06:46:00 PM
Very helpful.  Many thanks.  Perhaps you might describe your technique, so that others (perhaps me) might produce a few similar charts for other sites frequently visited.

I agree - very nice, thanks for your efforts.  I too would be interested in your technique.  SFO also has a good aerial shot from Google Earth.
Title: Re: Runway/Taxiway map in Google Earth
Post by: glennla on August 15, 2009, 08:32:09 PM
Here is a quick description of the technique (apologies, I did not see the replies!):

- Acquire a runway map; for example

http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KBOS/APD/AIRPORT+DIAGRAM (http://flightaware.com/resources/airport/KBOS/APD/AIRPORT+DIAGRAM)

This airport diagram might be all you need and you can avoid any further work.  :-) But if you like to have the satellite overlay view...

- Using Google Earth, zoom in to the airport (Type "Boston, MA" in the Fly To window at the top left for example)

- For each airport feature that you want to add, you can add either a placemark or a line directly in Google Earth. The icons at the top of the Google Earth window have the drawing tools that you need. Try marking a runway for example by clicking on the "Add Polygon" icon, then clicking on one end of the runway, then the other end. You can change the drawing properties for a line; click on the "Style, Color" tab that comes up in the dialog and choose a line color and a width of 8.0 or so. I just did a free hand drawing of each line.

The user interface is not the most friendly; have a look at http://earth.google.com/intl/en/userguide/v5/ug_drawing.html for more info.