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That could have sooo many reasons. "Berlin Municipal Airport" does come before "Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" in the alphabet. But.. looking for "London", 2 of

That could have sooo many reasons. "Berlin Municipal Airport" does come before "Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg" in the alphabet. But.. looking for "London", 2 of the first 3 airports are in North America and arguably a lot of people would not count any of the first 5 (Lydd, Oxford & Southend) as London. Heathrow doesn't show up at all without specifying further.

notahacker 4y ago
There's a few other areas where the text is suspect, e.g the international airport for Bali, in Denpasar won't show up in searches for Bali (colloquial name of the airport) or Denpasar (city referenced by the IATA code) both of which work in regular flight search, but requires entering the airport codes or its formal name Ngurah Rai. Extra confusion as there is a tiny airport called Bali Airport in Cameroon which shows up instead... In theory, they could build a system which returns relevant airports ranked by size in terms of latest/peak passenger traffic figures
- snthd 4y ago
  https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/115.1673 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/11... Tags: addr:city=Denpasar aeroway=aerodrome iata=DPS icao=WADD name=Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai name:de=Internationaler Flughafen Ngurah Rai name:en=Ngurah Rai International Airport name:fr=Aéroport International Ngurah Rai name:ko=응우라라이공항 operator=PT. Angkasa Pura I short_name=Bandara Internasional Ngurah Rai type=civil wikidata=Q1061846 wikipedia=id:Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai Colloquial names can be added with the various name tags: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_name) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_n... (I'm assuming the search is sourcing data from OSM).
throwaway049 4y ago
How do these peripheral airports get to name themselves in such a misleading way? 'London Oxford airport' isn't even in Oxford; locals still call it Kidlington airport.
- Zigurd 4y ago
  You should see what they name towns in Maine. Not the Paris you expected.
- 867-5309 4y ago
  Oxford is a commuter city for London - you can drive to/from the centre of each in around 90mins or London Heathrow to Oxford Airport in around 60mins that's no time at all compared to the driving distances between major US cities, which I'm guessing is what this is based on

notahacker 4y ago

There's a few other areas where the text is suspect, e.g the international airport for Bali, in Denpasar won't show up in searches for Bali (colloquial name of the airport) or Denpasar (city referenced by the IATA code) both of which work in regular flight search, but requires entering the airport codes or its formal name Ngurah Rai. Extra confusion as there is a tiny airport called Bali Airport in Cameroon which shows up instead... In theory, they could build a system which returns relevant airports ranked by size in terms of latest/peak passenger traffic figures

snthd 4y ago
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/115.1673 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/82162575#map=15/-8.7460/11... Tags: addr:city=Denpasar aeroway=aerodrome iata=DPS icao=WADD name=Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai name:de=Internationaler Flughafen Ngurah Rai name:en=Ngurah Rai International Airport name:fr=Aéroport International Ngurah Rai name:ko=응우라라이공항 operator=PT. Angkasa Pura I short_name=Bandara Internasional Ngurah Rai type=civil wikidata=Q1061846 wikipedia=id:Bandar Udara Internasional Ngurah Rai Colloquial names can be added with the various name tags: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_name) https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Names#Local_names_(loc_n... (I'm assuming the search is sourcing data from OSM).

throwaway049 4y ago

How do these peripheral airports get to name themselves in such a misleading way? 'London Oxford airport' isn't even in Oxford; locals still call it Kidlington airport.

Zigurd 4y ago
You should see what they name towns in Maine. Not the Paris you expected.
867-5309 4y ago
Oxford is a commuter city for London - you can drive to/from the centre of each in around 90mins or London Heathrow to Oxford Airport in around 60mins that's no time at all compared to the driving distances between major US cities, which I'm guessing is what this is based on