A few new features for our Facebook app have been rolled out since the original announcement, so I thought I’d take a moment to share them with you.
First, today’s new feature: instead of just updating your friends when you add new flights to OpenFlights, which is interesting but, quite frankly, not all that useful, you […]
Posts from ‘February, 2009’
New features on Facebook
OpenFlights at BarCampSingapore3, Sat Feb 28
I’ll be giving a short talk entitled Open Travel Culture: Wikitravel and OpenFlights at BarCampSingapore3, held at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore on Saturday, Feb 28th, 2009. My slot is tentatively scheduled for 4:30 to 5 PM in Room 3, but this being an unconference that’s subject to change. As you can guess from the title, […]
Give your flights a spin in 3D on Google Earth
Today I’m delighted to announce OpenFlights‘ coolest feature yet: KML exports. KML, or “Keyhole Markup Language“, is the data format used by Google Earth and many other 3D visualization programs, so now you can turn your OpenFlights maps into this:
Exporting from OpenFlights couldn’t be much easier, just click on List flights and then hit the […]
Airport and airline databases released
One of the largest hurdles to getting OpenFlights off the ground was getting good airport and airline data. The FAA’s DAFIF has not been available to the public since 2006, apparently because the Australians demanded money for their data, and most other airport lists floating around are badly out of date — one of the […]
Time flies like an arrow
…and now OpenFlights keeps track of it too, since with today’s release our very first feature request was completed: flight arrival and departure times are now supported.
You’d be excused for thinking that this doesn’t sound too complicated, but the devil is in the details: to work out when a flight departing Los Angeles lands in […]
