Re: CVS commit: src/share/misc

["Douwe Kiela" <virtus%wanadoo.nl@localhost>]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004 12:23 AM, Tomasz Luchowski wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I think a limit should have to be set somewhere,
we shouldn't care about really small airports, e.g. on the IATA
list (http://www.mapping.com/airportcodes.html) they also mention
very small airports such a Bergen op Zoom, the Netherlands.

A more usefull list to use is this one, it mentions only the larger
airports:

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/airport_code.htm

However, I'm not sure whether letting people add those that
they consider "important" is a good thing, because you find
for example Polish airports important, and others don't..
Are all of these airports you added large Polish airports? I
don't think they are..

Just my 2 cents..

Regards,
Douwe