[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Maybe we should also think about adding another entry, the > continent. If we want to use a "search by continent" feature in > the airport dialog, then of course, it is possible to find the > continents by country. But history showed that this is not a > reliable value. For example 15 years ago, you could say that the > UDSSR is more in Asia instead of Europe, but when you would check > for the moscow airport your programm would assume asia because of > UDSSR=>Asia, but that's wrong because, moscow is still in Europe.
For the very few countries that straddle continents, like the Russian Republic or Turkey (any others?), the region/state code will (hopefully) be adequate to make the distinction. If there are 10 or 20 airports that are still ambiguous because of states/regions that also straddle continents, we could put them into a special-case table if necessary. All the best, David _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
