Not for navigation or operational use
This is a data-quality research project. Nothing here may be used for flight planning, navigation, or any operational aviation decision. For official, current heliport information, consult the FAA directly.
A review queue, not findings
A flag means a landing area could not be confirmed from a single aerial image at a single moment in time. It is never an assertion that a facility is missing, fake, mislocated, unsafe, or out of compliance. Imagery can predate construction, and trees, shadows, and rooftops routinely hide real pads.
How the verdicts are made
Each recorded heliport's coordinate is rendered as an aerial tile and reviewed by an AI vision model (Claude Opus 4.8), which judges whether a landing area is visible at the center. "Confirmed" means the model saw a pad; it is an automated opinion, not an inspection. Community votes sit alongside it to bring human eyes to every record.
Heliport records — FAA, public, not ours
Heliport records are derived from the FAA's publicly available Airports dataset, downloaded from the FAA open-data portal at adds-faa.opendata.arcgis.com. As a work of the U.S. federal government it is open public data; we do not own it and claim no rights in it, and it may contain errors or be out of date. This project is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the FAA.
Aerial imagery — USGS NAIP (public domain)
The aerial tiles are from the USDA / USGS National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP), served via the USGS National Map ImageServer. NAIP imagery is a work of the U.S. federal government and is in the public domain; it may be reproduced freely. Imagery is shown solely to help a human reviewer locate and assess each recorded point, and may be a year or more old. This project is independent and not affiliated with or endorsed by the USDA, USGS, or the FAA.
Community votes
Visitor votes are crowd-sourced opinions, not verified facts, and may be wrong or manipulated. They are shown to help prioritize human review, nothing more.
No warranty
Everything here is provided “as is,” without warranty of any kind. Verify independently before relying on anything on this site.
Privacy & property
Some recorded heliports sit at private residences or businesses. The locations and imagery shown are already publicly available. If you own a listed facility and would like an entry reviewed or removed, contact us through warmerdigital.com.
Trademarks
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