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Open-data downloads for OurAirports.com
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A bug in the ourairports user interface #14

Open kontrarie opened 1 year ago

kontrarie commented 1 year ago

So for the sake of clarity, this has nothing to do with the files that can be downloaded here from github. The issue is however quite annoying, and I got no reply from David when mentioning it to him per e-mail.

If one edits an existing aviation terrain, which is in a country that is spread over multiple continents, upon reading the terrain the user interface will change the continent to the first possible. For example: Spain is mostly in Europe, but partly in Africa too. If one now edits an aviation terrain in European Spain, the user interface will silently change the continent to Africa. It is easy to overlook this secretive action, in fact it happened to myself yesterday.

I experienced similar effects in Greece, where at least one aerodrome was secretly migrated to Asia by the web page, contrary to my intentions.

All contributors, please look out (contributors @Bill35 and @animebirder have been especially affected, I already corrected a plethora of terrains they had edited) and be ready to correct as required. And David, could you PLEASE check the code?

Thanks in advance to all!

kontrarie commented 1 year ago

The bug is still alive and kicking - nine aerodromes hit this time, all in Russia, after being edited by @lowflyer.

davidmegginson commented 1 year ago

I will look into this. Thanks for the report.

kontrarie commented 1 year ago

Thanks, David. It would be nice if you could speed things up a bit, user @lowflyer is clobbering up aerodromes faster than I can correct them...

kontrarie commented 1 year ago

Well, it is almost half a year since this was reported, and still not solved. Shall we have a little celebration?