[Tagging] Heliport tagging

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:39:25 +0200
Daniel Koć <daniel at xn--ko-wla.pl> wrote:

> I was trying to use helicopter icon for rendering helipads on default 
> style, but it looks like it was not needed here and instead it could
> be good to be used for heliports. However they are currently
> unrecognizable from plane airports:
> 
> https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1806#issuecomment-137401140
> 
> This looks like a simple case for me: we don't use aeroway=heliport 
> scheme at all, so we could just start now (probably leaving 
> aeroway=aerodrome for planes and mixed plane/helicopter airports).
> 
> We have currently about 6k uses with value "heliport", so given that 
> some of them are just in different languages, it might be at most - 
> let's say- 5k of them in our database:
> 
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=heliport#values
> 
> Comments?
> 

Using different tagging for heliports and airports supporting planes
seems to be a good idea.