A clean, structured open dataset of airports for travel, mapping, logistics, research, and software projects.
The dataset includes airport identifiers, names, geographic coordinates, and supporting metadata designed to make the data easier to use in applications, APIs, analysis workflows, and open data projects.
Unlike a simple airport list, this dataset is organized as a reusable reference resource. It includes machine-readable files, schema documentation, validation tooling, citation metadata, and release notes so that developers and researchers can understand, verify, and build on the data with confidence.
View the Airports Dataset on GitHub:
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What’s Included
The repository includes structured airport data in developer-friendly formats, along with documentation and supporting files for reuse and citation.
The dataset is designed to support use cases such as travel tools, airport lookup features, mapping applications, route planning experiments, logistics references, open data projects, and educational datasets.
Why This Dataset Exists
Airport data is useful across many types of projects, but raw lists are often difficult to verify, extend, or reuse consistently.
This project focuses on making airport data easier to work with by emphasizing structure, documentation, validation, and long-term maintainability.
Repository Features
The GitHub repository includes:
- Cleaned airport dataset files
- CSV and JSON formats
- Dataset schema documentation
- Validation scripts
- GitHub Actions workflow
- Citation metadata
- Zenodo-ready metadata
- Changelog and release notes
Use the Dataset
The Airports Dataset is available as an open GitHub repository.
Whether you are building a travel tool, mapping project, data pipeline, educational demo, or research workflow, you can use the repository as a structured starting point.
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