[Tagging] airstrip vs runway

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 9. Oct 2017, at 13:47, Christoph Hormann <osm at imagico.de> wrote:
> 
> I am not aware that OSM in any way defines what an airport is.  It is 
> likely that whatever line you draw between an airport and a non-airport 
> is not practically verifiable in many cases.
> 
> Keep in mind that the mental image of an 'airport', 'aerodrome' 
> or 'runway' or whatever translation the description of this tag is in 
> your local language differs a lot from mapper to mapper.  So the only 
> really meaningful definition is something that describes what something 
> is in an objective and verifiable form.  In this case it is "the strip 
> of land on which aircraft can take off and land".  And that mostly 
> matches current use of aeroway=runway


I am not aware that OSM in any way defines what an “aircraft” is.

Why is “aircraft” objective and verifiable, but “airport” is not?

Cheers,
Martin