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by notahacker 1213 days 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

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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_n... (I'm assuming the search is sourcing data from OSM).