Curtis L. Olson writes: > Just a couple thoughts to consider. We are looking at 16-20,000 > airports so we couldn't stuff them all in a single directory. Even > splitting them into subdirectories by first letter probably isn't > enough. Also, consider that with zillions of tiny files, much space > is wasted on the file system which hits people in the windows land the > hardest it seems because they often have a very large minimum file > size.
Splitting by country could be interesting (possibly by country and state for the US): Airports/airport-index.xml Airports/AU/airports.xml Airports/CA/airports.xml Airports/UK/airports.xml Airports/US/CA/airports.xml Airports/US/NY/airports.xml Airports/US/MI/airports.xml and so on. airport-index.xml would have minimum info on each airport: <airport> <ident>CYOW</ident> <lat>..</lat> <lon>..</lon> <location>CA/airports.xml</location> </airport> Unfortunately, we don't currently have nationality information in default.apt.gz, but it is in the DAFIF, so we can add most of it automatically. This is also nice because we can assign different national files to different maintainers (one might want to handle AU and NZ, another might want to handle UK, FR, DE, ES, and NL, and so on). All the best, David -- David Megginson, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.megginson.com/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
