[Tagging] Aerodrome types

John Packer john.packer7 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 23 17:56:30 UTC 2014


I updated the wiki page Key:aerodrome[1].

One of the issues that are still not decided is how to tag international
airports.
Should we use international_flights=yes ? Or could we use something like
flights_range=international/domestic/regional ?

[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aerodrome


2014-07-08 16:07 GMT-03:00 John Packer <john.packer7 at gmail.com>:

> There already exists a key military=*.
> Now that I took a better look, it seems that there already is a key for
> aerodromes exclusively used in military operations: military=airfield
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:military>.
>
> The questions remains as to how to mark an aerodrome that is not used
> exclusively in military operations (e.g. a public use airport with a
> militar base).
>
>
>
>
> 2014-07-06 19:29 GMT-03:00 Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net>:
>
>>  On 7/6/14 3:41 PM, Fernando Trebien wrote:
>> > How about using "aerodrome=*" to express how the aerodrome is used by
>> > civilians and then add "military=yes" when the airport is also used
>> > for military operations?
>> >
>> you could potentially broaden it a bit, with military=yes being the
>> generic "i have no more data" tag:
>>
>> military=reserve
>> military=nationalguard
>> military=militia
>> military=air_force
>> military=army
>> military=navy
>>
>> (in the US national guard is not automatically redundant with
>> militia; NY state for example has militia units that are distinct
>> from the guard units.)
>>
>> richard
>>
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