On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 5:10 AM Thomas Wager <twage...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> some changes to /share/misc/airport to treat german umlauts more
> consistently, remove the "Flugplatz" (german for airport, which is kind
> of redundant as it is all airports in the list), remove NRW which does
> not exist as IATA code, remove THF which is gone since 2010.
>
> -Thomas
>
> Index: share/misc/airport
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/share/misc/airport,v
> retrieving revision 1.83
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.83 airport
> --- share/misc/airport  26 Jun 2022 06:28:51 -0000      1.83
> +++ share/misc/airport  24 Jul 2022 23:20:14 -0000
> @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ DUD:Momona, Dunedin, New Zealand
>  DUJ:Jefferson County, Du Bois, Pennsylvania, USA
>  DUQ:Quamichan Lake, Duncan / Quam, British Columbia, Canada
>  DUR:King Shaka International, Durban, South Africa
> -DUS:Dusseldorf, Germany
> +DUS:Duesseldorf, Germany

Dusseldorf is extremely common spelling in English (which the
wikipedia page mentions). This was an interesting read though:
https://goduesseldorf.com/post/duesseldorf/

I'm not opposed to changing it though.

>  DUT:Dutch Harbor, Alaska, USA
>  DVO:Mati, Davao, Philippines
>  DXB:Dubai, UAE
> @@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ HAD:Halmstad, Halland, Sweden
>  HAH:Moroni (Hahaya), Comoros
>  HAJ:Langenhagen, Hanover, Germany
>  HAK:Haikou, China
> -HAM:Fuhlsbuettel Hamburg, Germany
> +HAM:Fuhlsbuettel, Hamburg, Germany

Wikipedia states this airport is now called Hamburg Airport?

>  HAN:Noibai, Hanoi, Vietnam
>  HAU:Karmoy, Haugesund, Norway
>  HAV:Jose Marti, Havana, Cuba
> @@ -940,7 +940,7 @@ LAW:Municipal, Lawton, Oklahoma, USA
>  LAX:Los Angeles International, California, USA
>  LBA:Leeds/Bradford, England, United Kingdom
>  LBB:Lubbock, Texas, USA
> -LBC:Lubeck, Germany
> +LBC:Luebeck, Germany

ok

>  LBE:Westmoreland County, Latrobe, Pennsylvania, USA
>  LBF:North Platte Lee Bird Field, Nebraska, USA
>  LBL:Glenn L Martin Terminal, Liberal, Kansas, USA
> @@ -1214,7 +1214,6 @@ NPL:New Plymouth, New Zealand
>  NQY:Newquay Civil, England, United Kingdom
>  NRK:Norrkoping, Sweden
>  NRT:Narita, Tokyo, Japan
> -NRW:All Airports around Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

No thanks. These are pretty standard ways to refer to groups of
airports that are close by. We have a bunch of these in the file and
I'd hate to lose these.

BHZ:All Airports around Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
BUE:All Airports around Buenos Aires, Argentina
BUH:All Airports around Bucharest, Romania
CHI:All Airports around Chicago, Illinois, USA
DTT:All Airports around Detroit, Michigan, USA
JKT:All Airports around Jakarta, Indonesia
KCK:All Airports around Kansas City, Kansas, USA
LON:All Airports around London, United Kingdom
MFW:All Airports around Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
MIL:All Airports around Milano, Italy
MOW:All Airports around Moscow, Russia
NRW:All Airports around Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
NYC:All Airports around New York City, New York, USA
OSA:All Airports around Osaka, Japan
OSL:All Airports around Oslo, Norway
PAR:All Airports around Paris, France
QDV:All Airports around Denver, Colorado, USA
QLA:All Airports around Los Angeles, California, USA
QSF:All Airports around San Francisco, California, USA
RIO:All Airports around Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
ROM:All Airports around Roma, Italy
SAO:All Airports around Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
STO:All Airports around Stockholm, Sweden
TYO:All Airports around Tokyo, Japan
WAS:All Airports around Washington, District of Columbia, USA
YEA:All Airports around Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
YMQ:All Airports around Montreal, Quebec, Canada
YTO:All Airports around Toronto, Ontario, Canada


>  NSB:North Seaplane Base, Bimini, Bahamas
>  NSI:Nsimalen, Yaounde, Cameroon
>  NSN:Nelson, New Zealand
> @@ -1672,7 +1671,6 @@ TGM:Tirgu Mures, Romania
>  TGU:Toncontin, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
>  TGZ:Llano San Juan, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
>  THE:Teresina, Piaui, Brazil
> -THF:Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany

ok

>  THN:Trollhattan, Sweden
>  THR:Mehrabad, Tehran, Iran
>  THU:Thule, Pituffik, Greenland
> @@ -1851,7 +1849,7 @@ XBR:Brockville, Ontario, Canada
>  XCM:Chatham, Ontario, Canada
>  XDM:Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
>  XFD:Stratford, Ontario, Canada
> -XFW:Flugplatz Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany
> +XFW:Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany

ok

>  XIY:Xianyang, Xi An, China
>  XLV:Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
>  XLZ:Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
>

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