Hi,

I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to get only airports from the FindNearBy service? However, using the Acxiom dataset, I can't seem to figure out how the limit it to airports only. It seems to return everthing in that category (Airports, Flying Fields, and Services). Here is my code:

findNearbySpec.DataSourceName = "Acxiom.US.SIC_E";
findNearbySpec.Distance = 40.0f;
findNearbySpec.LatLong = new LatLong();
findNearbySpec.LatLong.Latitude = dLatitude;
findNearbySpec.LatLong.Longitude = dLongitude;
findNearbySpec.Filter = new FindFilter();
findNearbySpec.Filter.EntityTypeName = "SIC4581"; //Airports, Flying Fields, and Services


I'm esentially trying to duplicate FindNearBy functionality from MapPoint 2004 application with only "Major - Airports" place category enabled.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Hello,

A couple of things:

1. The Acxiom data source is going away in the near future. It is being superceded by the Navtech premium data source. Here's an article with more detail:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893176

2. Both of these data sources are of a 'yellow pages' type variety and I don't believe that they necessarily have to completeness for this type of search. Personally, if I wanted to do a proximity search for airports in a certain area I'd try to find the data and upload it as a custom data source. I believe that there's pretty good lists of airports available out there.


Steven Pushee

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