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Sep 23, 2009, 7:59 am

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jpatokal

Join Date: Sep 2003

Location: Terra Australis Cognita

Posts: 5,350

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Originally Posted by jackal

The "Create account" option links to http://openflights.org/html/signup.html, which gives a 404 error.

D'oh! How'd that survive unnoticed so long?

Should be fixed now, thanks for the tip.

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I'm now registered for OpenFlights.org. I haven't yet imported my FM data--I'd like to know if progress was ever made on the suggestion earlier for the FM import feature to be expanded to work more automatically for FM Premium members (which I am).

Unfortunately this is unlikely to happen as long as FM chooses to hoard their data and not provide any export formats other than PDF.

I am, however, considering a "one-click tool" that would let OpenFlights log into your FM account (provided you're willing to share your password) and slurp up the data by itself. A donation or two from FM users interested in this might speed up the development process

beckoa, re: Google Earth exports, you should be getting great circle (curved) paths? For speed reasons, though, they're not really curves, just approximations.

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