[Tagging] airstrip vs runway

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 12:16:19 UTC 2017


On 09/10/2017 12:47, Christoph Hormann wrote:
>
> 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.

Yes - data consumers are then free to use other tags to decide whether 
an "aerodrome" in OSM is something they want to display or not.  For 
example:

https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L2685

Regards,

Andy




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