Subject: Re: airport codes.
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
List: tech-misc
Date: 10/19/2000 07:33:28
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Simon Burge wrote:
> We currently have a list of approximately 370 airports listed in
> /usr/share/misc/airport.  There's at least one database on the
> 'net that has over 14000 airports listed (with a rough size of
> 800kB).  Should we:
> 
>   + update our airport database with all known airports?
>   + keep our list as-is (ie, what people want in there and no
>     more)?
>   + junk our list altogether because there's more complete
>     information available elsewhere?

-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  1019360 Sep 26 09:46 /usr/pkg/bin/lynx

Junk it and sacrifice the 200KB more for something *really* useful.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>