Re: CVS commit: src/share/misc

[Tomasz Luchowski <tomasz%luchowski.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:58:39PM +0100, Klaus Klein wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 23:39, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > Tomasz Luchowski <zuntum%netbsd.org@localhost> writes:
> > > Log Message:
> > > Add some Polish airports: WAW, GDN, KRK, KTW, LCJ, POZ, WRO
> >
> > Is there a standard international reference for this stuff so we could
> > just slurp them all in and keep them up to date?
> 
> Why go for one standard when there are (at least) two available? :-)
> 
> Seriously, I think importing the whole IATA code list would be
> overdoing this thing (~9000 entries IIRC), let alone legal
> ramifications, conflicts with ICAO codes, those not listed by
> IATA but ICAO etc.

If airports had everything from http://www.mapping.com/airportcodes.html, 
it would be ~1MB - I think that's a bit too much, comparing to current 14KB :-)
I guess letting people add those that they consider "important" should still 
work.

Cheers,
  Tomasz

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