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by codetrotter 1475 days ago
I had the same thought. I’ve seen some booking sites default to “OSLALL” when you select Oslo, which will show results for both OSL and TRF. Probably “OSLALL” is not a real IATA. Either way, to me OSL should mean Gardermoen and nothing else. And search results I am finding on Google seem to indicate the same. After all, it’d be pretty silly if you were traveling to Gardermoen and your luggage was tagged “OSL” but then your luggage somehow ended up on TRF instead.

So referring to OSL as “all airports around Oslo, Norway” is IMO a mistake on the part of the OpenBSD developers indeed. In spite of the point made by the sibling comment about ambiguity. Because the context is airports, I think OpenBSD should list OSL as “Oslo Gardermoen Airport, Norway” in their airports file.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Airport,_Gardermoen which says:

> Oslo Airport (Norwegian: Oslo lufthavn; IATA: OSL, ICAO: ENGM), alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen