If there is any interest of mapping airline routes, than do it with a relation between the airport nodes, as great circles can easily be calculated between two known positions. Making lines on the map is easy enough when you have the end positions, and nodes in between is not necessary at all.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neroute2@gmail.com">neroute2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"><br>Yeah, mapping routes between airports is a bad idea.<br><br>On the other hand, it might be feasible to map approaches to airports as<br>
shown on official diagrams. There are also "avigation easements" that might<br>be relevant here.<br><font color="#888888">--<br>View this message in context: <a href="http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Flight-paths-in-OSM-tp5619787p5620343.html" target="_blank">http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Flight-paths-in-OSM-tp5619787p5620343.html</a><br>
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