Airport-Distance

A web app that calculates the distance (in nautical miles) between two airports.

Features:

• Auto-complete the airports, with jQuery UI autocomplete
• Feature all airports in the US, with self-build airports.js file
• Calculate the distance of two airports, with SITA Airport API for airport info and distance
• Plot the trip on Google maps, with Google Map API and gmaps.js library
• Python Flask framwork to support cross domian issue with SITA API

Live Demo

• Live Demo for Airport-Distance Web App running on AWS EC2.

Installation

• Check your Python Version, 2.7.* would be best

Python -V

• install Flask
• install requests

pip install Flask
pip install requests

• Run the app

python run.py

• The app will be running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/

Tech

This work uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• flask - The Web microframework for perfectionists with deadlines.
• jQuery - The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library.
• jQuery UI - Set of user interface interactions, effects, widgets, and themes built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library
• Ajax - jQuery library to load data from the server without a browser page refresh
• bootstrap - The most popular front-end framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
• SITA Airport API - The public API from SITA Developers, to retrieve information about airports.
• Google Maps JavaScript API V3 - Embed the robust functionality and usefulness of Google Maps into website
• gmaps.js - Google Maps API with less pain and more fun

Author

• Xiaoli Jiang jiangxiaoli1104@gmail.com

License

MIT