Airport ICAO Route Plotter

I wanted an easy way to plot an aviation route from airport to airport on an interactive web page map. I'm currently using this to track a tour to circumnavigate the world in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Feel free to use or modify this script.

This Python script reads airport data from a CSV file and plots a route on a map using the Folium library. The route is specified by a list of ICAO codes provided in a text file.

Screenshot:

Prerequisites

Python 3
pip (Python package installer)

Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/your-username/airport-route-plotter.git

Navigate to the project directory:
```
cd airport-route-plotter
```
Install required dependencies:
```
pip install folium
```

Usage

1. Prepare Data

Use the included (airports.csv) containing airport data. The CSV file should have the following columns: ident, latitude_deg, and longitude_deg.

Updated file available at https://ourairports.com/data/

Example CSV format:

"id","ident","type","name","latitude_deg","longitude_deg","elevation_ft","continent","iso_country","iso_region","municipality","scheduled_service","gps_code","iata_code","local_code","home_link","wikipedia_link","keywords"
6523,"00A","heliport","Total RF Heliport",40.070985,-74.933689,11,"NA","US","US-PA","Bensalem","no","K00A",,"00A","https://www.penndot.pa.gov/TravelInPA/airports-pa/Pages/Total-RF-Heliport.aspx",,
323361,"00AA","small_airport","Aero B Ranch Airport",38.704022,-101.473911,3435,"NA","US","US-KS","Leoti","no","00AA",,"00AA",,,

Create a text file (current_route.txt) with your route containing a list of Airport ICAO codes, with each code on a new line.

Example text file:
```
KJFK
EGLL
RJTT
ZBAA
```

2. Run the Script

Run the script using the following command:

python airport_route_plotter.py

3. Output

The script will read the airport data from airports.csv and the list of ICAO codes from current_route.txt, then plot the route on a map using Folium.
The resulting map will be saved as route_map.html in the project directory. Open this with your browser.