On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:48, David Megginson wrote: > On 25/03/06, Melchior FRANZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The airports list is barely usable: there are so many entries > > in it that you don't easily find anything. And the slider resolution > > is much too high for finding an entry with it alone. Move it > > just one pixel, and you jumped over oodles of airports. The arrow > > buttons have no repeat function, so they are of limited help, too. > > I've now hacked the airports widget to allow filtered lists: > > > > http://members.aon.at/mfranz/airports.jpg [30 kB] > > We need to get geopolitical information into our airport list, at > least at the country and region (state/province/etc.) levels -- that > could make the filtering much more useful. Proximity filtering might > also be nice, but that's a much bigger job. > > > All the best, > > > David
I did do some work on that a long time ago using the ICAO codes to break up the data by country but ran into a couple of problems. 1. There is no state/province field in the airports db and it can't be deduced from ICAO codes. 2. There are a couple of areas in the world that share the same ICAO code even though they belong to different countries so using the ICAO code isn't a 100% accurate method. The best would be to have a country and state/province field in the airport DB and that would need to come from Robin Peel unless we want to have a different DB again. Regards Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
