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A web app that calculates the distance (in nautical miles) between two airports. The app should auto- complete the airports and should feature all airports in the US. Bonus: plot the trip on Google maps.

Python 2.25% CSS 0.30% JavaScript 91.85% HTML 5.60%

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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