[Tagging] aeroway=taxiway as area

Jean-Marc Liotier jm at liotier.org
Fri Aug 29 20:59:34 UTC 2014


On 08/29/2014 10:38 PM, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote:
> Why the value description table of
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dtaxiway states that
> aeroway=taxiway should not be used on areas?
>
> Is there a valid point for this ?

If you are going to perform airport routing (now that would be quite 
exotic), my understanding is that typical routing engines don't take 
surfaces into account in their calculations. Otherwise, just make sure 
that you are not confusing aeroway=taxiway with aeroway=apron - most 
airport surfaces that you might be tempted to model as surfaces are 
actually aprons rather than taxiways.



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