[Tagging] airstrip vs runway

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 21:38:43 UTC 2017


On 09-Oct-17 11:16 PM, Andy Townsend wrote:
> 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 
>

I'd add to the 'grass' runway - 'unpaved' and 'dirt' for other areas of 
the world.



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