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Posts from ‘October, 2009’

Customized OpenLayers cluster strategies

Extremely technical content ahead — if you’re looking for news about OpenFlights the website, check out this post instead. Programmers using OpenLayers, read on.
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Airport codes and dynamic clusters, oh my

Today OpenFlights rolls out a very simple feature indeed: airport codes are now shown on the map, right next to each airport.  Better yet, if you happen to forget what “BHX” or “NTQ” stands for, just hover your mouse over the airport icon and it will pop up a label reminding you that they’re “Birmingham, […]

Comprehensive airline route data released

One of OpenFlights‘ most popular features is our dynamic airport and airline route mapping, and today, we’re proud to release the underlying data in an easy-to-use form, up to date for October 2009.  Behold 56749 routes between 3310 airports on 669 airlines spanning the globe:

The data can be downloaded from our Data page and is […]

Airline editing implemented

Things have been a little quiet in OpenFlightsLand lately — this doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything, it’s just that it’s mostly been unglamourous bugfixing that doesn’t really warrant blog updates.
But we do have a small new feature today: in addition to our existing airport editor, we have now enabled editing for airlines as […]