[okfn-discuss] Data for a graph on Earth

Mon Jan 5 17:44:38 UTC 2009

http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/data/mix/USAir97.net

Gives the network of airports in the USA (i.e. flight connections plus
distances). However, (rather unfortunately) it is licensed under a CC
by-sa-nc which may be a problem for you (might be worth writing to
Batagelj asking why they are using NC restriction (plus applying (c)
license to data ...).

Also you may be after long/lats of airports not their connections in
which case the best I know of is:

http://www.airnav.com/airport/

But this is definitely *not* open and you'll need to write a scraper.

Regards,

Rufus

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Gael Varoquaux
<gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Still doing examples for Mayavi... This time I would like to appeal to
> humanities/social sciences. I know graphs are important to these people
> (we keep getting questions on the mailing list on how to build graphs),
> so I was thinking of displaying a small graph on the surface of planet
> Earth. For instance airline connections. The reason being that this is
> some data that is not too abstract, and can talk to non-specialists.
>
> Does anybody has an idea of a dataset that I could use for this purpose?
> I had a quick look on CKAN, but to no avail. I don't need much data: the
> graph can be very simple.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gaël
>
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