Airports and heliports in a country, for my consultancy

Every airport and heliport in your countries, in a sheet and on a map.

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What it does

Every year: the airports, regional airports and heliports in your countries, with phone and website, kept in a sheet and on a map for the aviation consultancy.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Nairobi, Kampala and 2 more, find airports, international airports and 2 more in the area, remove duplicates, then add row in Google Sheets, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

Aviation consultants need a current list of airports. It refreshes itself every year.

Who it is for

Airports, airlines & aviation. Airports, airlines, flight schools, maintenance and aviation services planning routes, partners and passengers’ journeys. Every use case for airports & aviation

Best use cases

  • An aviation consultancy
  • An aviation fuel supplier
  • A drone operator

What each run gives you

  • A Google Sheet
  • A map

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. Our countriesWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. Airports and heliportsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
  4. Each airport onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
  5. Update the airports sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
  6. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
  7. Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.

How to set it up

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