The amount of hate this project is getting in the comments is just incredible... Very little airport surface data is made available in an open and machine-read

The amount of hate this project is getting in the comments is just incredible... Very little airport surface data is made available in an open and machine-readable format (aerial navigation data is available openly in the US at least). Because of this only the big players (e.g., Boeing) have this data. OpenStreetMap users who contribute this data are democratizing access for anyone who wants to work with airport data in the same way global map data is democratized. At the same time, data is only useful if you can make sense of it, and the first task towards being able to work with this data is visualizing it. A specialized mapping tool helps a lot here. Props to the author for making it! One example use case: citizen scientists could develop and test new planning algorithms for airplane taxiing that are resistant to blockages and availability problems. This is science you could do right now only because data like this is available.