16 extractive question-and-answer pairs built from Open data @ OurAirports, published by ourairports.com. Every answer is a verbatim span of text the source prints, and each row carries the passage it sits in, its offset in that passage, the source quote, the page and the location in the document, so any row can be checked against the original. 12 of the 16 pairs (75.0%) are explanatory questions and 4 restate a figure. 100.00% of rows pass the corpus quality gate.
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First 10 of 16 rows
| question | answer | context | answer_start | question_type | knowledge_quality_score | source_quote | source_page | source_location | confidence | validation_status |
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| What is the consequence of opening CSV files in Microsoft Excel without specifying the encoding? | any non-English characters will be scrambled | For information about the columns and values in the datasets, please visit thedata dictionaryandmap legend(for airport and navaid types). Effective 3 November 2021, the download files are stored on GitHub, in the repositorydavidmegginson/ourairports-data. The old download links redirect to there. Cloning that repository is an alternative way to access the data. The CSV files above use the UnicodeUTF-8character encoding to represent a wide range of non-English characters, such as Hellenic, Cyrillic, Han Chinese, and Arabic scripts, as well as accented Latin characters. Unfortunately,Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding when you open them, always assuming a proprietary Microsoft character encoding. if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | 827 | relationship | 0.970 | if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | p[0] | 0.700 | valid | |
| What is the purpose of the spreadsheet listing the world's countries? | to interpret the country codes in the airports and navaids files | There are two workarounds available: In both cases, Excel will give you an opportunity to specify the field separator (",") and the character encoding ("UTF-8"), and then accented and other non-English characters should appear without problem. These workarounds are not necessary forOpenOffice Calc, which always prompts for the character encoding when opening a CSV file (just choose "UTF-8"). Large file, containing information on all airports on this site. Large file, listing communication frequencies for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing member comments for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing runways for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing worldwide radio navigation aids. A list of the world's countries. You need this spreadsheet to interpret the country codes in the airports and navaids files. | 781 | relationship | 0.970 | You need this spreadsheet to interpret the country codes in the airports and navaids files. | p[0] | 0.700 | valid | |
| What does OurAirports encourage users to do when using their data? | give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources | Data should be open and sharable. OurAirports hasRSSfeeds forcomments,CSVandHXLdata downloads for geographical regions, andKMLfiles for individual airports and personal airport lists (so that you can get your personal airport list any time you want). Microsoft Excel users should read thespecial instructionsbelow. For more intense work, we have aCSV-formatted data dump of all our airports, countries, and top-level administrative subdivisions (regions), which we update every night. You can download these files and open them with almost any spreadsheet program or import them into your own database. You can even use them to set up your own, competing airport web site if you'd like! We'd love you to give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources, but you're not required to. All data is released to the Public Domain, and comes with no guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use. | 704 | relationship | 0.970 | You can even use them to set up your own, competing airport web site if you'd like! We'd love you to give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources, but you're not required to. | p[0] | 0.700 | ||
| Why might non-English characters appear scrambled when opening CSV files in Microsoft Excel? | Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding | For information about the columns and values in the datasets, please visit thedata dictionaryandmap legend(for airport and navaid types). Effective 3 November 2021, the download files are stored on GitHub, in the repositorydavidmegginson/ourairports-data. The old download links redirect to there. Cloning that repository is an alternative way to access the data. The CSV files above use the UnicodeUTF-8character encoding to represent a wide range of non-English characters, such as Hellenic, Cyrillic, Han Chinese, and Arabic scripts, as well as accented Latin characters. Unfortunately,Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding when you open them, always assuming a proprietary Microsoft character encoding. if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | 589 | relationship | 0.970 | Unfortunately,Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding when you open them, always assuming a proprietary Microsoft character encoding. | ||||
| What happens if you open the CSV files from OurAirports in Microsoft Excel without specifying the encoding? | any non-English characters will be scrambled | For information about the columns and values in the datasets, please visit thedata dictionaryandmap legend(for airport and navaid types). Effective 3 November 2021, the download files are stored on GitHub, in the repositorydavidmegginson/ourairports-data. The old download links redirect to there. Cloning that repository is an alternative way to access the data. The CSV files above use the UnicodeUTF-8character encoding to represent a wide range of non-English characters, such as Hellenic, Cyrillic, Han Chinese, and Arabic scripts, as well as accented Latin characters. Unfortunately,Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding when you open them, always assuming a proprietary Microsoft character encoding. if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | 827 | relationship | 0.970 | if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | p[0] | 0.700 | valid | |
| What can users do with the CSV-formatted data dump provided by OurAirports? | download these files and open them with almost any spreadsheet program or import them into your own database | Data should be open and sharable. OurAirports hasRSSfeeds forcomments,CSVandHXLdata downloads for geographical regions, andKMLfiles for individual airports and personal airport lists (so that you can get your personal airport list any time you want). Microsoft Excel users should read thespecial instructionsbelow. For more intense work, we have aCSV-formatted data dump of all our airports, countries, and top-level administrative subdivisions (regions), which we update every night. You can download these files and open them with almost any spreadsheet program or import them into your own database. You can even use them to set up your own, competing airport web site if you'd like! We'd love you to give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources, but you're not required to. All data is released to the Public Domain, and comes with no guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use. | 493 | summary | 0.970 | You can download these files and open them with almost any spreadsheet program or import them into your own database. | p[0] | 0.700 | ||
| What is the purpose of the CSV-formatted data dump provided by OurAirports? | to set up your own, competing airport web site | Data should be open and sharable. OurAirports hasRSSfeeds forcomments,CSVandHXLdata downloads for geographical regions, andKMLfiles for individual airports and personal airport lists (so that you can get your personal airport list any time you want). Microsoft Excel users should read thespecial instructionsbelow. For more intense work, we have aCSV-formatted data dump of all our airports, countries, and top-level administrative subdivisions (regions), which we update every night. You can download these files and open them with almost any spreadsheet program or import them into your own database. You can even use them to set up your own, competing airport web site if you'd like! We'd love you to give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources, but you're not required to. All data is released to the Public Domain, and comes with no guarantee of accuracy or fitness for use. | 625 | summary | 0.970 | You can even use them to set up your own, competing airport web site if you'd like! We'd love you to give us credit, likewe give credit to our sources, but you're not required to. | p[0] | 0.700 | ||
| What information does the large file 'airports.csv' contain? | information on all airports on this site | There are two workarounds available: In both cases, Excel will give you an opportunity to specify the field separator (",") and the character encoding ("UTF-8"), and then accented and other non-English characters should appear without problem. These workarounds are not necessary forOpenOffice Calc, which always prompts for the character encoding when opening a CSV file (just choose "UTF-8"). Large file, containing information on all airports on this site. Large file, listing communication frequencies for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing member comments for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing runways for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing worldwide radio navigation aids. A list of the world's countries. You need this spreadsheet to interpret the country codes in the airports and navaids files. | 418 | summary | 0.970 | Large file, containing information on all airports on this site. | p[0] | 0.700 | valid | |
| What does OpenOffice Calc do differently from Microsoft Excel when opening CSV files? | always prompts for the character encoding | There are two workarounds available: In both cases, Excel will give you an opportunity to specify the field separator (",") and the character encoding ("UTF-8"), and then accented and other non-English characters should appear without problem. These workarounds are not necessary forOpenOffice Calc, which always prompts for the character encoding when opening a CSV file (just choose "UTF-8"). Large file, containing information on all airports on this site. Large file, listing communication frequencies for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing member comments for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing runways for the airports inairports.csv. Large file, listing worldwide radio navigation aids. A list of the world's countries. You need this spreadsheet to interpret the country codes in the airports and navaids files. | 306 | comparison | 0.920 | These workarounds are not necessary forOpenOffice Calc, which always prompts for the character encoding when opening a CSV file (just choose "UTF-8"). | p[0] | 0.700 | valid | |
| What character encoding do the CSV files from OurAirports use? | UnicodeUTF-8character encoding | For information about the columns and values in the datasets, please visit thedata dictionaryandmap legend(for airport and navaid types). Effective 3 November 2021, the download files are stored on GitHub, in the repositorydavidmegginson/ourairports-data. The old download links redirect to there. Cloning that repository is an alternative way to access the data. The CSV files above use the UnicodeUTF-8character encoding to represent a wide range of non-English characters, such as Hellenic, Cyrillic, Han Chinese, and Arabic scripts, as well as accented Latin characters. Unfortunately,Microsoft Exceldoes not detect the character encoding of CSV files, and does not allow you to specify the encoding when you open them, always assuming a proprietary Microsoft character encoding. if you simply open the CSV files in Excel, any non-English characters will be scrambled. | 392 | definition | 0.820 | The CSV files above use the UnicodeUTF-8character encoding to represent a wide range of non-English characters, such as Hellenic, Cyrillic, Han Chinese, and Arabic scripts, as well as accented Latin characters. | p[0] | 0.700 |
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