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I visited 4 airports that aren't in the list. Do you think I can add them to the list? Never committed before to OpenBSD so I do not know if I compute as a "OpenBSD developers" in "New airports can only be added by OpenBSD developers who have visited an airport and thereby have verified its existence."
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
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Which makes you wonder why some railway stations would have a IATA code.
> Which makes you wonder why some railway stations would have a IATA code. Such locations, which can also be bus stations and ferry ports, are known as "intermodal locations". TL;DR its for ticketing purposes to enable flight and rail/bus/ferry legs to be issued on the same ticket. Or at least that's the theory. To be honest its probably going be extinct in due course, given the complexities of integrating the airlin…
[0] https://airportsbase.org/Germany/all/Rosenheim/Airport_of_Ro...
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
And whatever the valid reason, why isn’t it an import of some official list?
It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
Its inclusion in 4.4BSD seems a mystery though. No other files on the 4.4BSD distribution seem to reference it. The atc(6) game involves airports, but it doesn't seem to actually open this file, both in 4.4BSD and in OpenBSD.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which makes you wonder why some railway stations would have a IATA code.
> Which makes you wonder why some railway stations would have a IATA code. Such locations, which can also be bus stations and ferry ports, are known as "intermodal locations". TL;DR its for ticketing purposes to enable flight and rail/bus/ferry legs to be issued on the same ticket. Or at least that's the theory. To be honest its probably going be extinct in due course, given the complexities of integrating the airlin…
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
.. also: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
From what I can tell, at least it's historically inherited. 4.4BSD had a list of airports in the same location. Its inclusion in 4.4BSD seems a mystery though. No other files on the 4.4BSD distribution seem to reference it. The atc(6) game involves airports, but it doesn't seem to actually open this file, both in 4.4BSD and in OpenBSD.
The previous release, 4.3BSD-Tahoe, did not have /usr/share
Ok, I'll ask the obvious. Why is OpenBSD trying to maintain a list of IATA airport codes? (And before you ask why not, try to think of some answers yourself first. I can come up with a few drawbacks, though I'm nowhere close to a subject expert.)
History is so quickly forgotten: https://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html .. also: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html