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RyanShort1 wrote: Also, is there a way to plot a bunch of these out on a Google Maps feature? You reminded me of a very exhaustive map my friend made: Ohio Airports. It includes active airports, but the closed/abandoned category is by far the largest (933 entries). To answer your question: Sure, since Paul has included coordinates for all of them. The hardest part would probably collating all of the coordinates as you'd have to write a program to scrape them off the page unless you felt like copy/pasting all 2,775 entries by hand. Wikipedia also has a template that you can drop coordinates into, which is something I've done the coordinates of North American aircraft factory locations on my Wikipedia sandbox. It would actually be very useful as my only criticism of ALKA is that the organizational format is hard to use unless your familiar with the layout of each state. Many states are divided into, for example, northwest, northeast, southeast or southwest quadrants. However, the majority of the time, if I am looking for a specific airfield, I don't know which one it falls under, resulting in my having to search each page. Also, it can sometimes be confusing whether an airport will be on one page or another because it isn't clear where the "catchment area" ends. One option would be to create simple maps with lines showing the borders of the subdivisions on them to place at the top of each state level page for reference. However, I realize reorganizing the whole website would be a major hassle, so one solution would be a site specific search engine. It would allow visitors to simply enter the name of the airport they are looking for and it would find it. For example Google offers a programmable search engine. Relevantly, Joe Baugher's website had a search engine made for it by someone else. While this approach would take a lot less effort, it also requires a significant level of technical knowledge. Speaking of well-known aviation history reference works, it's a measure of just how much of an institution that ALKA has become that it has inspired a European version called Abandoned, Forgotten & Little Known Airfields in Europe. Lastly, while I'm on the subject of airport reference works, I collated a bunch of them while working on the Aircraft Equipment Directory page on my website: Books- Fletcher, Harry R. (1993). Air Force Bases. Vol 2. Washington, D.C., United States Air Force, Center for Air Force History
- Mueller, Robert (1989). Air Force Bases. Vol 1. Washington, D.C., United States Air Force, Office of Air Force History
- Thole, Lou (1996). Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training Then and Now. Vol. 1. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company.
- Thole, Lou (1999). Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training Then and Now. Vol. 2. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company.
- Thole, Lou (2003). Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training Then and Now. Vol. 3. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company.
- Thole, Lou (2007). Forgotten Fields of America: World War II Bases and Training Then and Now. Vol. 4. Missoula, Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company.
- Shaw, Frederick J (2014). Locating Air Force Base Sites: History’s Legacy. Washington, D.C., United States Air Force, Air Force History and Museums Program
- Shettle, M. L. (2009). Florida's Army Air Fields of World War II. Bowersville, Georgia: Schaertel Publishing.
- Shettle, M. L. (2005). Georgia's Army Air Fields of World War II. Bowersville, Georgia: Schaertel Publishing.
- Shettle, M. L. (2001). United States Marine Corps Air Stations of World War II. Bowersville, Georgia: Schaertel Publishing.
- Shettle, M. L. (1995). United States Naval Air Stations of World War II. Vol. 1. Bowersville, Georgia: Schaertel Publishing.
- Shettle, M. L. (1997). United States Naval Air Stations of World War II. Vol. 2. Bowersville, Georgia: Schaertel Publishing.
- Ries, Karl; Dierich, Wolfgang (1996). Fliegerhorste und Einsatzhäfen der Luftwaffe: Planskizzen, 1935-1945 (in German). Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2001). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 1. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2002). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 2. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2003). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 3. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2005). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 4. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2006). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 5. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2008). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 6. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2011). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 7. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2013). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 8. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2015). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 9. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2016). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 10. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2019). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 11. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
- Zapf, Jürgen (2023). Flugplätze der Luftwaffe, 1934-45 (in German). Vol. 12. Zweibrücken: VDM Heinz Nickel.
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