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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 […]

So far OpenFlights has been all about mapping your own travels and seeing where others have been to, but today, we’ve taken a big step in making it your tool of choice for travel planning as well.   Now, you can click on any airport and see every single scheduled flight:

For easy access to this, […]

The French (français) and Russian (по русски) translations of OpenFlights are now complete.  Merci beaucoup to Mathieu Marquer for the first and спасибо большое to Alexey Aslanyants for the second!
In addition, German and Polish translations are currently in the works. Can you help us with another language, or did you find something that […]

After tonight’s upgrade, OpenFlights can now support languages other than English, and we’re starting off with two: Finnish (suomi) and Japanese (日本語).  French, German and Russian are also coming soon, and we’re looking for people to help us translate other languages (more on that below).
To try out a different language, simply select it from the […]

OpenFlights is getting a major workover to support full localization, so the site will be down for about an hour starting Monday June 8, 0:00 UTC for database migration and web server reconfiguration.
Want to help us translate the site into other languages?  Register your interest by mailing info at openflights dot org today.  No programming […]

Some of our users have been asking for a way to add OpenFlights stats to their websites, blogs or forum signatures.  Wait no longer, banners are now here!  Here’s mine:

Banner contents update automatically every hour.  They can be used with HTML markup (used by web and blog pages):
<a href=’http://openflights.org/user/yourname‘ target=’_blank’><img src=’http://openflights.org/banner/yourname.png’ width=400 height=70></a>
With PHPbb markup […]

To date, OpenFlights has been all about flying — too bad if you occasionally used other modes of transport as well. But today, a major new feature has been rolled out: instead of just flights, you can enter train, road or ship journeys as well.  This introduces a large number of other changes, some […]

One of our first feature requests was simply entitled “more stats“, but it’s taken a while to work through the wish list.  Today that request (which kept on growing larger and more complex!) was finally marked as completed, and here’s what you get.

Top 10 by mileage: Previously, the Top 10 screen ranked your routes, airports, […]

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 […]

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 […]