Monthly Archives: May 2007
What makes an airport 'important'?
If you were building a mapping application that could show only (say) 20 airports on the screen at once at any given zoom level, how would you decide which airports are most important, using only publicly-available data sets? Here are … Continue reading
Tagged numbers, places, statistics
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"acting in any capacity other than as a passenger"
The online edition of Sports Illustrated (via CNN) has a story about the NTSB report on the Liddle crash. There’s nothing surprising in the report — the rough outline of the accident chain was obvious early on — but the … Continue reading
Tagged news
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Land and Hold Short 