On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:49, David Megginson wrote: > On 26/03/06, Paul Surgeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > 3. Smaller airports sometimes don't use ICAO codes (though most of > those are in the U.S.).
4. There are lots of smaller airports and airfields with no identifier code whatsoever (although we don't have any of those in FG). I added about 300 missing airfields with no identifier codes to Southern Germany for Silent Wings. Lots of glider strips and airfields with grass/turf or gravel runways. 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
