[Tagging] Airport subtypes

Alan Mintz Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Fri Dec 31 22:01:21 GMT 2010


At 2010-12-30 23:43, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>A recent import has highlighted the lack of suitable subtypes of
>airport in the tagging schema.
>There are some pages of lapsed concepts on the wiki of different
>airport subtypes
>
>A scan through the wikipedia gives me
>international airport
>domestic airport
>regional airport
>airstrip or airfield

IMO, a single categorization would be a poor choice. Maybe the ICAO or IATA 
or individual countries' aviation authority have defined categories for 
these things but I doubt people know them, and any attempt to tag 
consistently would surely prove futile.

I would suggest, instead, listing facilities and services available, much 
like we tag gas/petrol/fuel stations, e.g. fuels, repair, oxygen, 
customs/immigration, etc. This is the approach used in the US FAA's Airport 
Facilities Directory (which could be a decent source of import data if 
someone would like to work on it).

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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>




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