Switch to wikipedia as a source of plane/airline data

ffuuugor / myfr24-converter

A tool to convert "App in the Air" data export to MyFlightradar24 format

Apache License 2.0

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Switch to wikipedia as a source of plane/airline data #1

Open ffuuugor opened 1 year ago

ffuuugor commented 1 year ago

(In fact)[https://openflights.org/data.html], openflights is just a convenient representation of two wikipedia lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_type_designators
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airline_codes

However, openflights db is updated rarely (not even sure it's still maintained).

We can switch to parsing wiki lists directly for a fresh snapshot of data

jamesh1234567 commented 1 month ago

Not a comment on the switch to wikipedia, just wanted to say thank you for making this tool available, especially with AITA about to close down. Saved me from having to log flights manually one-by-one. You're doing gods work!