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 […]
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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, […]
200,000+ flights, geographical maps back online
Just a quick heads-up: OpenFlights now has well over 200,000 flights, but you’ll have to wait for 250,000 until the next installment of State of the Data. With any luck, the quarter-million milestone may be reached before the end of the year.
The other news of note is that the NASA OnEarth (Hypercube) geographical world map […]
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 […]
Ahora disponible en español, agora disponível em português
OpenFlights has just launched two very important language versions:
Spanish (español), courtesy of Luis F Nueckel
Portuguese (português), courtesy of László de Miranda Pinto
A round of applause to our volunteers, and please do help spread the word by posting to blogs and aviation forums in these languages.
OpenFlights is already available in 11 languages spanning the globe, […]
Route mapping improvements
Just a quick heads-up for a few route mapping improvements:
Airline maps now default to not showing codeshare flights, which makes them much clearer and faster to load and manipulate for most airlines. If you do want to display codeshares as well, just toggle the Carrier filter from “XX-operated” to “XX and codeshares”.
Airlines without IATA codes […]
Airline route maps launched, metric distances available
Our recently released airport route maps have been a huge hit, so we’ve now followed through on our promise and released airline route maps as well: just enter your favorite airline’s name or IATA code in the Quick Search to get their route map. As an example, here’s Slovene national airline Adria Airways (JP):
But […]
German, Lithuanian, Polish and Swedish are here!
Today, I have the great pleasure of almost doubling the number of languages supported by OpenFlights. Now launched are:
German (Deutsch), courtesy of David Weck
Lithuanian (lietuvių), by the team at Dreamsite.lt
Polish (polski), courtesy of G. Jacykowski
Swedish (svenska), courtesy of Gustav Gnosspelius
A round of applause to our volunteers, and please do help spread the word by posting […]
