[Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

[Zeke Farwell]

Well aeroway=helipad is documented on the wiki.  Doesn't render currently
though.  Also I think that's intended to mark each single landing pad.  I
think if we can develop a consistent scheme then
aeroway=aerodrome
aerodrome=heliport
would be better for a whole facility.  But where does it fit in the scale of
importance for renderers to decide what zoom level it shows at?

Zeke


On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:40 PM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>wrote:

> Also, how would you tag facilities that have one or more helipads (landing
> pads for helicopters), but no runways for fixed-wing aircraft?
>
> --
> John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:56:27
> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Zeke Farwell <ezekielf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > You may or may not know that currently in OSM there is only one
> [rendered]
> > tag to describe the many different types of places where planes can take
> off
> > and land (aeroway=aerodrome).  I'm trying to figure out how we can tag
> tiny
> > airstrips and gigantic international airports differently so that renders
> > can decide to show important aerodromes at high zoom levels and tiny,
> > unimportant ones only at low zoom levels.
> > Here are some tag ideas I'm toying with.  These would all be modifiers
> for
> > aeroway=aerodrome:
> > aerodrome=airport    (large aerodrome. many buildings.  commercial
> flights.
> >  international flights)
> > aerodrome=airfield    (smaller aerodrome.  few buildings)
> > aerodrome=airstrip    (tiny aerodrome.  basically just a runway, often
> just
> > a grass one)
>
> IMHO, if the only distinction between them is
> size/importance/hierarchy, then it just creates pain and confusion to
> create all these extra words, particularly for non-english speakers.
> Why not:
>
> aeroway=aerodrome
> importance=1
> importance=2
> etc.
>
> Make 5 intercontinental airports and 1 tiny amateur airfields. This
> also avoids the problem when Podunck Airfield is actually an
> international airport (yet "aerodrome=airfield" seems more intuitive),
> and removes a whole bunch of subjective issues to do with the
> connotations of each name.
>
> Steve
>
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