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Old December 25th 07, 05:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Eric Greenwell
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Default Replacement for DAFIF Airspace Data

2KA wrote:

Please do add the airport turnpoint list to turnpoint.com. I'll send
over some of my source code for comparison, so you can see how I
handle things like unique short name generation.


Speaking of name generation...

I'm probably telling you stuff you know already, but there is the
problem of airports with identical names. I fly from Richland airport in
Washington state, but there are Richland airports in MO, NY, and WI.
John Leibacher solved that for the airport databases he generated by
appending the state name to airports names that weren't unique: Richland
WA, Richland MO, etc.

If you use small turnpoint areas, it may not be problem, but I put the
entire USA into SeeYou, and I typically use large portions of it in
SeeYou mobile, like WA, OR, ID, MT, or WA, OR, ID, northern CA and NV.

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