OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport(cambus.net) |
OpenBSD folklore and share/misc/airport(cambus.net) |
The reason Lublin's IATA code is so prominently exposed is because the word "luz" in Polish means - among others - the state of being relaxed, chilled out. Just a bit of marketing on the city's part.
Many airports around the world have a large signboard.
(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.)
I guess it's just a "list of databases that was useful/fun to someone, at some point". Harder to "just get it from the internet" back in the 80s.
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
.. also: https://www.openbsd.org/events.html
It's just a bit of culture, don't worry about it so much.
Alternatives are to scrape some other website (who presumably paid IATA for the data) or Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_airports_by_IATA_and_...) which may or may not be more complete/accurate than OpenBSD's own crowdsourced list.
There are ~2,000 entries vs ~11,000 assigned IATA airport codes
My city has two airports which are like 50 km apart. One of them is for military only.
It shows the regular passenger airport IATA code mapped to the military airport name.
I wonder if I can correct it. I'm not a BSD developer at all.
It sounds like a severe enough accusation that there should be some corroborating evidence.
> Once again, the more astute reader will not have missed the fact that the rules do not stipulate any flying requirements. Neither did henning@, who not long after airport.7 was committed, added an entry for XFW, (the Airbus factory) which he had visited but not flown from.
Fair enough - he wrote the requirement, after all.
However, the Caveat in the man page seems to contradict this, and indicates that you do have to fly in:
> There are also railway stations with IATA codes. These may not be listed, except if someone landed there by plane and survived to update the file.
This says nothing about rail stations. For a rail station to be added, you must land on it. Presumably, taking off from there does not count.
This is an attempt at humor, because railway stations are not airports.
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 airline world with the modern private railways etc. In most cases its just easier and more sensible to ticket seperateley. Plus some of the quaint old-fashioned things such as being able to check-through bags are becoming few and far between due to security and other aspects (e.g. disappearance of station porters and baggage cars).
Because you could (still can?) book a trip that way.
Just like if you try to fly from Boise to Tokyo, you'll get a ticket set from BOI → SFO → NRT.
You could book a trip from ORD → PHL → whatever the code is for Penn Station in New York.
I don't think it's done that much anymore, but it used to be pretty common.
(Also available as "man ascii" from almost as long ago https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc... )
OpenBSD seems to like collecting extra items though
I'm not familiar with BSD but when I was using Kali if I was using a share it was to feed into something else, classic example being wordlists fed into hydra[1] or something.
Hackathons tentatively take place in airport lounges.
I'm reading "hackathons may occur in airports, therefore OpenBSD should maintain a list of all airport codes."
Suppose the list didn't already exist, how would you justify adding it?
Why it's designed this way with namespace collisions, I have no idea. Technically QSF also is a tiny airport in Algeria.
Sure, but NYC isn't also a specific New York City airport (JFK, EWR, LGA). The problem here is that OSL is apparently used both for the metropolitan area and for one specific airport (in the metropolitan area).
So referring to OSL as “all airports around Oslo, Norway” is IMO a mistake on the part of the OpenBSD developers indeed. In spite of the point made by the sibling comment about ambiguity. Because the context is airports, I think OpenBSD should list OSL as “Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway” in their airports file.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Gardermoen which says:
> Oslo Airport (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn; IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM), alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen
Has anybody here had this happen? 9-11 is the last occasion I could imagine where this could possibly be a win.
I recently read in a railfan magazine that this is becoming worse because of the supply chain mess.
Fright train companies are running longer trains because of higher demand. Longer trains run slower, because there's only so many engines to go around.
Making things worse — slow freight trains would often pull onto sidings to let fast passenger trains pass. Now the freight trains are too long to fit into the sidings, so more and more the passenger trains have to wait.
[0] https://airportsbase.org/Germany/all/Rosenheim/Airport_of_Ro...
Hey Elon, can you pay $15 billion to get rid of bots on the Internet?
I’d have thought integrated security would be far more secure since the baggage goes and stays behind the secure boundary until the conclusion of the trip vs being retrieved, checked in, retrieved, checked in, etc
They have a small number of specialist baggage couriers called Takuhaibin (宅配便). These couriers will take your bags between any two destinations of your choice (Hotel-Hotel,Hotel-Airport etc.) for a reasonable fee. The pick-up and destination can (basically) be anything in Japan with a postal address.
Its not true check-through as you still have to pick up your bags from the counter landside at the airport and take them to the check-in counter but the distance is minimal since you'll already be in the right terminal and on the right floor.
(Technically for the pedants out there, Takuhaibin are also a general parcel company too. But unlike, say UPS or FedEx, a Takuhaibin will take your baggage, your furniture, your clothes or pretty much anything else as long as its safe and legal)
We have these in America, too. They're call couriers. They'll even pick up your luggage that went to the wrong airport in a different city and bring it to you at your hotel in the right city. (Happened to me with a bicycle.)
unlike, say UPS or FedEx, a Takuhaibin will take your baggage, your furniture, your clothes or pretty much anything else as long as its safe and legal
This sounds exactly like UPS and FedEx. I shipped baggage, furniture, and clothing via UPS as recently as last year. I even had a service come over and pack it up for me.
UPS and FedEx will ship anything. How do you think elephants and whales get from zoo to zoo?
UPS and FedEx freight or LTL (less than truckload) is another story entirely.
Indeed.
With a Takuhabin I can go pick up a freshly pressed wedding dress from a dry cleaners and hand it over just like that. It will arrive in exactly the same state it left the dry cleaners.
With UPS it would barely make it into the back of the collection driver's van before it looked like a second hand rag.