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Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by whiskers »

riobard wrote: post #116
jerf wrote: post #114

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Ha! Sorry, didn't mean to resurrect a dead project. I just searched for an API to the airport codes and ran with it. I was actually hoping to find just a data dump of them somewhere, but if you can't I suppose no such thing publicly exists. My personal recommendation is to do what you want to do. If you don't want to maintain it, perhaps add a note about that, but whatever. You've got no obligation.

Please don't feel sorry about it. I'm actually quite happy to see it's still useful for someone today. I'm just not sure what to do with it next. Right now it doesn't cost me anything to run it anyway. Thanks very much for your idea :) I was in searching of such a data dump before I wrote AirportCode, but like you said, it's not really available. Some websites sell these data for big fees, which I couldn't pay for, s…

http://openflights.org/data.html has a pretty decent airports data set!

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by mseebach »

plasticgun wrote: post #109
mseebach wrote: post #71

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For the winning intinerary, it's a moot point as both Europe and Asia are represented at different stops. Istanbul Atatürk (TAV) airport is Europe, Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is in Asia. The border is the straight of Bosporus. Continents are a rather vague concept[1]. Any definition is going to be arbitrary. For the purposes of your contest, I think the spirit would be to have gone to the continents "proper", i.e. I wouldn'…

> I'd be inclined to allow New Zealand as part of Australia as the only exception. Sure - why not, there's only a sea between us that you can fit an area the size of California to Nebraska into ... pretty close really.

Allow it as part of the australian continent, despite the water. The alternative is to not recognize it as part of any continent. Just like how California and Nebraska are part of the same continent despite, what, three deserts and two mountain ranges between them.

Did I mention that any definition of continents is arbitrary?

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by Someone »

mseebach wrote: post #71
todsul wrote: post #53

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Hey mseebach, We had a few issues in the beginning defining these border countries and decided to allow Istanbul as Europe, but will definitely group it for Asia in future. We had a handful of difficult decisions, but luckily the winning entry visited all continents without contention. Guam was the tough one for us. Would you say Oceania?

For the winning intinerary, it's a moot point as both Europe and Asia are represented at different stops. Istanbul Atatürk (TAV) airport is Europe, Sabiha Gökçen (SAW) is in Asia. The border is the straight of Bosporus. Continents are a rather vague concept[1]. Any definition is going to be arbitrary. For the purposes of your contest, I think the spirit would be to have gone to the continents "proper", i.e. I wouldn'…

As a bonus, that would make the Brits very happy :-)

Other notable exceptions I can think of are Indonesia, Vancouver island and Manhattan.

I think you should extend each land mass to wherever the sea floor reaches a given depth (100 meters or so?), and then do a transitive closure on those to get continent boundaries.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by michael991 »

exhilaration wrote: post #118
michael991 wrote: post #99

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Any flight in particular? I can't give it all away as that would be unfair to Flightfox, as well as other experts. Flightfox really is a very good site where experts work hard finding you the best price for your particular needs.

I'm New Jersey - would love to know how you found the JFK-BKK flight as well, please e-mail me usmanc---at----gmail. No need to give it all away - I plan to use Flightfox in the future for complicated travel. I just did a crazy complicated Middle East and Asia trip, it would have been worth $50 to me just to see other options than what my travel agent booked.

Hi, The price above doesn't hold for the opposite direction. Everyone asking me for flight prices, go to flightfox and I'm sure you'll be happy with the results. Thanks, Michael

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by 205guy »

todsul wrote: post #40

Here are the winning flight details: This is a 6-Continent RTW itinerary for $1,730. We personally verified that it's a valid itinerary, and at the time of checking, all flights could be booked. JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (New York, US to Georgetown, Guyana) GEO 25-Oct-2012 JFK 25-Oct-2012 Delta (Georgetown, Guyana to New York, US) JFK 14-Nov-2012 TXL 15-Nov-2012 Air Berlin (New York, US to Berlin, Germany…

RTW (round the world, I assume) may have some special meaning in this context, but to the lay person, that itenerary does not cross all degrees of longitude and, notably, not the dateline.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by zwass »

todsul wrote: post #37
zwass wrote: post #35

Love the idea. You'd really have me if I could at least see something about the itinerary. Dates, cities, at least. Why do you have a "view details" link that does nothing? I doubt that gives away enough to render your service unnecessary.

Hi Zwass, working on it right now. Just trying to keep the server up. But we'll get to it as soon as we can. For most contests it's important that only the contest holder can see the details, because they're often quite personal. But in this case we'll post the itinerary because it's quite interesting to see how the winner managed to construct a 6-continent itinerary for $1730. Will post back soon.

Awesome. I see your point, and am excited to see the results for this one.

Re: The Cheapest Route to 6 Continents

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Post by riobard »

whiskers wrote: post #121
riobard wrote: post #116

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Please don't feel sorry about it. I'm actually quite happy to see it's still useful for someone today. I'm just not sure what to do with it next. Right now it doesn't cost me anything to run it anyway. Thanks very much for your idea :) I was in searching of such a data dump before I wrote AirportCode, but like you said, it's not really available. Some websites sell these data for big fees, which I couldn't pay for, s…

http://openflights.org/data.html has a pretty decent airports data set!

Ha, that's the one I'm dreaming about! Thanks!
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