On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:13:13PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I don't see what other wishlist bug I ought to file here. The bug is > > "please add more airport codes"; I realise it's somewhat open-ended but > > I don't see how another bug report would help. There are a finite number > > of airports in the world, and all the major ones have codes, so it must > > be possible to extend it. > > No, *all* the airports have codes, and there are tens of thousands of > them. So your request is one of the following:
(You could have said what you meant to start with, rather than making a vague negative comment and expecting me to divine its meaning ...) > 1) Add all the airport codes (but then, it should be tagged "wontfix" > and ignored; what's the point?) Actually I don't see what's intrinsically wrong with requesting a list of all airport codes; it's not as though we don't have other files containing tens of thousands of lines. The point is exactly the same as the current list, only it might actually be useful when you're trying to remember an airport code for the benefit of some poorly-written travel website that doesn't accept airport names. I don't see the value of a woefully incomplete list other than as a curiosity, since you have no reliable expectation of being able to search it and get a positive result. I'm not going to think "oh, that's a US airport, I know where I can get a list of those"; I'm going to remember one place that gives me all of them. Nowadays I see that e.g. http://www.world-airport-codes.com/ exists, which I think wasn't the case when I filed the bug, so at least I have a fallback even if I do have to put up with advertisements along the way. But, if everyone just uses a fallback instead, then there seems little point in having the airport list in miscfiles at all; just replace it with a URL or something. > > I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a wishlist bug asking for the > > airport list to be extended beyond the United States, even if it > > currently happens to be specific to the US plus a few more bits. Air > > travel being what it is, surely there is little value in demanding that > > the codes must be listed in lots of different places, one for each > > country. > > The question is: *what* extension would you like? Instead of vague > terms ("more non-US airports"), do you have a particular standard? OK, how about the full IATA list? Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
