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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 […]

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because the Australians demanded money for their data, and most other airport lists floating around are badly out of date — one of the […]

…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 […]

This has been one of the top feature requests since day 1, and we’re delighted to announce that OpenFlights now has a Facebook application!
Install the app and give it your OpenFlights username, and something very similar to what you see on the right will appear, showing the number, total distance and total duration of your […]

After some six months of development and testing, we’re delighted to today announce the official launch of OpenFlights, the site that lets you map your flights around the world, search, filter and categorize them in all sorts of interesting ways, calculate statistics automatically, and share the resulting maps with friends and the world — if […]

Welcome to the OpenFlights blog. Once we launch officially (very soon now!), this will become the main channel for updates on what’s happening in OpenFlightsLand, although we’ll keep on piping in updates to our Facebook page, our Identica account and our Twitter account.