# Ideas needed for encoding World Airport Codes and Airlines

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**Created:** [April 3, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/ideas-needed-for-encoding-world-airport-codes-and-airlines/7356 "2020-04-03T05:22:29Z")\
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In what dimensions do you want to compare airports? An xy position like lat/lon is one. What about altitude? Size of the airport? I’m sure there are a lot of semantics you might want to encode.

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