[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - aeroway=heliport

[Warin]

On 3/11/2015 1:43 AM, Dave F. wrote:
> On 01/11/2015 20:50, Daniel Koć wrote:
>>
>> I was just wonder if we could turn the aeroway=helipad wih "heliport" 
>> in name into aeroway=heliport (not all of them, because helipad is 
>> different beast, as you just wrote), but after more research I am now 
>> more cautious: looks like many "heliports" are in fact just helipads, 
>> even here (using CIA World Factbook data):
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_heliports
>
> I'm glad you've decided to review this proposal.
>
> That wikipedia page is so restrictive in its definition: Just one 
> heliport in the whole of Australia? I just don't believe it.
>

Heipads in Australia...  http://www.helipads.org ..
  A little more than one. Most major hospitals have one.
Dick Smith has one ... though it is private.

And the wikipedia definition is fairly broad ..

total number of heliports with

  * hard-surface runways,
  *   helipads, or
  * landing areas that /support routine sustained helicopter operations
    exclusively/ and have support facilities including one or more of
    the following facilities: lighting, fuel, passenger handling, or
    maintenance


The last one would accept a dirt helipad near the Bungle Bungles - a 
dirt strip that refuels and accepts passengers.

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