Airport Codes in Posts
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Airport Codes in Posts
Hello. It would be nice if a mouseover popup with decoded airport name could be automatically incorporated in posts. For example, someone talks about their PDX-MSP-CLT trip, if I didn't know what airports those were, I would move my mouseover the 3 letter code and a small popup says "Portland" or "Minneapolis." It would have to identify three letter words in CAPS to trigger the link generation. This would save the 15-30 seconds it would take to open your favorite airport code database and search it in a different window...
EDITTED
Solution for Macs:
If you use Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you can use the Dashboard widget [ttjoseph] wrote to quickly look up 3-letter airport codes and 2-letter airline codes:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb...portcodes.html
Solution for PC's (Firefox):
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~abuckley/ (under "Scripts")
You must have Greasemonkey installed first
EDITTED
Solution for Macs:
If you use Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you can use the Dashboard widget [ttjoseph] wrote to quickly look up 3-letter airport codes and 2-letter airline codes:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb...portcodes.html
Solution for PC's (Firefox):
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~abuckley/ (under "Scripts")
You must have Greasemonkey installed first
Last edited by ucsf_med; Oct 18, 2008 at 1:58 am Reason: Updated Links
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I concurr!
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One concern I would have about this suggestions is that some forums, where airport codes are used regularly (like the mileage run forum) would be overrun & harder to read with all those mouseovers. Personally, I'm not a fan of mouseovers & I think it's worth the extra 15-30 seconds to google the airport code & find out what it is instead of having all those mouseovers...
Last edited by bhatnasx; Apr 28, 2007 at 12:04 am
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One concern I would have about this suggestions is that some forums, where airport codes are used regularly (like the mileage run forum) would be overrun & harder to read with all those mouseovers. Personally, I'm not a fan of mouseovers & I think it's worth the extra 15-30 seconds to google the airport code & find out what it is instead of having all those mouseovers...
Mike
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Is there any other way to get this Firefox extension?
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My only thought is that when talking about a fairly obscure airport, particularly in the MR forum, is to list the actual airport. While we know LAX, LGA, ORD, MDW, SFO, LAS, IAD, etc. etc., others such as College Station, Texas and Dodge City, KS (which granted might not key for a lot of MRs) are not.
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Maybe it's TalkBoard access only?
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If you use Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you can use the Dashboard widget I wrote to quickly look up 3-letter airport codes and 2-letter airline codes:
http://ll.cx/files/Airport%20Codes.zip
http://ll.cx/files/Airport%20Codes.zip
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Sorry about the link everyone - it was an invalid old link & this was pointed out to me this evening. My apologies...
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I like the idea of a flyover/popup. Another possible way to do this would be to implement an "expert mode", where when enabled, you get the 3-letter code, and when disabled, it would automatically parse the code into the names (also useful for the myriad other acronyms, such as SWU, E+, etc...)
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here'e a post that has just such a script-does it have every airport in it? no. Is it helpful, YES
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...t=greasemonkey
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showt...t=greasemonkey
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man, i wish someone would make one for IE7...