Airport terminal layouts

Data acquisition

Download nodes, ways and relations with the aeroway tag within area marked with IATA code AMS (Amsterdam airport). The ICAO code (here EHAM) may also be used.

from cartes.osm import Overpass

airport = Overpass.request(area=dict(iata="AMS"), aeroway=True)

Data preprocessing

None

Data visualisation

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.offsetbox import AnchoredText

from cartes.crs import Amersfoort, PlateCarree

fig, ax = plt.subplots(
    figsize=(15, 15),
    subplot_kw=dict(projection=Amersfoort())
)

airport.plot(
    ax, by="aeroway",
    gate=dict(color="C0"),  # change default color for gates to C0 blue
    tower=dict(markersize=3000)  # enlarge default size
)
ax.spines["geo"].set_visible(False)

# Focus on the terminal area (gates), with a little buffer (in terms of lat/lon degrees)
ax.set_extent(airport.query('aeroway=="gate"'), buffer=1e-3)


# This is about some semi-automatic placement of text labels

def horizontal(name):
    if name[0] in "BCMH":
        if int(name[-1]) & 1 == 0: return "right"
    if name[0] in "EFG":
        if int(name[-1]) & 1 == 1: return "right"
    return "left"


def vertical(name):
    if name[0] in " D":
        if int(name[-1]) & 1 == 1: return "bottom"
    if name[0] in "MH":
        if int(name[-1]) & 1 == 0: return "bottom"
    return "top"


style = dict(
    transform=PlateCarree(),
    color="white", fontsize=16,
    fontweight="bold", font="Frutiger",  # what else?
    bbox=dict(facecolor="C0", edgecolor="none", boxstyle="round"),
)

for _, elt in airport.query('aeroway == "gate"').data.iterrows():
    if elt.ref == elt.ref:
        ax.text(
            elt.longitude, elt.latitude, elt.ref.center(3),
            ha=horizontal(elt.ref), va=vertical(elt.ref),
            rotation=45 if elt.ref[0] == "D" else 0, **style
        )

# Title of the map

text = AnchoredText(
    "Amsterdam Schiphol airport",
    loc=3,
    prop={"size": 24, "fontname": "Fira Sans", },
    frameon=True,
)
text.patch.set_boxstyle("round,pad=0.,rounding_size=0.2")
ax.add_artist(text)