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Offline vdeane

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Re: TM Airports
« Reply #45 on: August 06, 2025, 08:50:17 pm »
Highway interchanges seems like a useful one, especially since there have been multiple AARF threads on the subject.
I agree that this is the most logical 'next thing' to have a similar treatment to airports, though bejacob's point about going slow is a good one.

This one has the potential to fit better within the main TM highways code base.  Without thinking too much about how hard it would be, I imagine list files entries that could be expanded to allow a list of all waypoints where the user has entered or exited a route, have this information displayed with different icons on Mapview and Showroute, and various stats and rankings could be provided.

And I agree with the overall comment that there should not be a rush to expand to all of these other ideas.  An overall approach similar to what TM did in expansion to railways, where there's a common code base that ingests different sets of data, seems it would make sense. 
Eh, trying to put something together like that as a .list file for all points (and not just interchanges) is more work than I'd want to do for my travels.  If it were done that way I'd probably just ignore it and hope that the way it's implemented would only show up if the user engaged with it.
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Re: TM Airports
« Reply #46 on: August 07, 2025, 07:41:36 pm »
The process of adding new airports is now automated, so all airports should be visible any time your map is created or updated.

We're over 500 airports now, including several military airports added today.
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Re: TM Airports
« Reply #47 on: Yesterday at 12:44:25 am »
We're over 500 airports now, including several military airports added today.

The ones I noticed on the updated airports list all have IATA codes. I was toying with the idea of claiming at least two airstrips, where planes use specially-widened and straightened parts of the Dempster Highway in the Yukon (YT 5) and the Northwest Territories (NT 8 ). One, in Eagle Plains YT, has a sign warning highway travelers not to stop on the airstrip. Alas, they have no IATA codes or scheduled passenger flights, so the military airports are probably not a good enough excuse to add those airstrips.
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