Julian Foad writes:

 > It seems *awfully* redundant given that there is already the Id
 > *and* the geographical location.

The lat/lon would be fine for searching inside 10 deg x 10 deg chunks,
but it would get very expensive if we had to store polygons for all
country and region boundaries and do point-inside tests for every
airport.  On balance, I think that this is a reasonable optimization.


All the best,


David

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