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DAFIF and date formats

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• Subject: DAFIF and date formats
• From: David Megginson <dmeggin@a...>
• Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 21:00:52 -0400
• In-reply-to: <20040502164439.EWMB8163.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@Turtle>
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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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