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Michael Kay wrote:
> Their site appears to have a security certificate that expired on 5th
> February, or possibly 2nd May.
If only a standards body could come up with a date format that people from
all countries could understand ...
Seriously, the DAFIF is a wonderful example of free information online, even
if the Web people forget to renew their certificate, or even to come up with
a domain name to associate with the IP address. If anyone is interested in
a medium-size, free (as-in-beer and as-in-speech) dataset to convert to XML
and test with tools, I highly recommend the DAFIFT (the tab-delimited
version), which includes worldwide information on thousands of airports,
runways, air traffic service frequencies, air routes, etc. etc.
https://164.214.2.62/products/digitalaero/index.cfm
The U.S. government leads the world in making this kind of data freely
available, however much it sticks in my Canadian throat to say so.
Converting the tab-delimited tables to XML is fairly trivial, as long as you
read the data dictionaries first.
All the best,
David
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