We use airport data from OurAirports. Until now, I've just been downloading the latest version of their airport list, but they have a GitHub repository for this data going back to November 2021. It would be helpful to be able to specify an "as of" date for airport data access, and to have the appropriate version of the airport list be pulled from the GitHub repo.
This might also help with test reproducibility (we currently have a small fixed list of airports used for testing). It would also probably help with the issue that the airports-patch.csv is intended to solve — this file includes details of airports that no longer exist and so do not appear in the latest version of the OurAirports data, but that were used in the OAG 2019 data. We might still need patching to go back beyond November 2021, but the number of patches we need should be smaller if we're closer to the time we're actually interested in.
We use airport data from OurAirports. Until now, I've just been downloading the latest version of their airport list, but they have a GitHub repository for this data going back to November 2021. It would be helpful to be able to specify an "as of" date for airport data access, and to have the appropriate version of the airport list be pulled from the GitHub repo.
This might also help with test reproducibility (we currently have a small fixed list of airports used for testing). It would also probably help with the issue that the airports-patch.csv is intended to solve — this file includes details of airports that no longer exist and so do not appear in the latest version of the OurAirports data, but that were used in the OAG 2019 data. We might still need patching to go back beyond November 2021, but the number of patches we need should be smaller if we're closer to the time we're actually interested in.