Today’s feature is a new trick by an old pony — now, you can finally open up (or link directly to) airline and airport route maps, instead of needing to go to the main page, type in your search, select the correct choice and load up the map you actually wanted. Observe:
Finnair: http://openflights.org/airline/AY
Alice Springs: […]
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Quick and easy URLs for airport and airline route maps
Improvements to FlightMemory imports
I’ll be frank: the bit of code for importing flights from our friends at FlightMemory to OpenFlights has long been riddled with bugs, and that’s why we’ve at long last thrown out the bulk of the plumbing and rebuilt it with shiny new pipe. This has already fixed a number of bugs (most notably, accented […]
Yet another Facebook application issue
It’s only been a few weeks since we last pestered you, but it turns out our changes to the Facebook app weren’t quite enough, and that for a certain set of users flight notifications were still not working properly. This time, though, we’re pretty sure we’ve got it licked, so let’s try this one last […]
Facebook application changed, your action required to keep posting flights
Recent changes inside Facebook have broken the existing OpenFlights Facebook application’s ability to post recently added and/or today’s flights to your Facebook Wall. To fix your copy, please go to this URL:
http://apps.facebook.com/openflights/
Right below “Step 1″, click on the link entitled “Grant permission to publish posts”, click on “Allow publishing” in the dialog that pops up, […]
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.
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 […]
Dynamic Javascript localization with Gettext and PHP
Disclaimer: The following is intolerably technical and doesn’t really have anything at all to do with flying. Non-geeks, please head straight for the emergency exit.
Now, for the few brave people who are actually interested in the intricacies of Javascript localization…
