[Tagging] Problem with airport classification

[Janko Mihelić]

I'm not an expert, but don't only big airports have the IATA code? Only 9
airports have the IATA code in Croatia, and about 30 have the ICAO code.
Maybe you have to meet certain standards to get the IATA code.

Janko Mihelić

2015-01-03 14:54 GMT+01:00 Christoph Hormann <chris_hormann at gmx.de>:

> On Saturday 03 January 2015, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
> > - introducing new key that would allow to decide whatever
> > airport is important or not
>
> Independent from this particular problem manually tagging importance
> ratings is a really bad idea.  Importance of a feature is nearly always
> a multi-criterion quantity.  To make such a rating verifiable would
> require to have a recipe to calculate it from other observable facts -
> and then it is better to tag these facts rather than the combined
> rating calculated from them.
>
> As i have said on github the runway length would be a fairly good
> criterion for importance and it is very widely available already (35551
> nodes aeroway=aerodrome with 31752 ways aeroway=runway).  The problem
> here is not having this information mapped i think but querying it from
> the rendering database.
>
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