[Tagging] aeroway=runway - wiki fiddling

Christoph Hormann osm at imagico.de
Fri Mar 9 18:52:47 UTC 2018


On Friday 09 March 2018, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> I have noticed that there is a lot of change happening on the runway
> wikipage.
>
> Up to some months ago, the longstanding definition for a runway was:
> "A strip of land kept clear and set aside for airplanes to take off
> from and land on."
>
> This was changed to "Runway of an airfield"

Noticed that too - to complete the self referential circle you would now 
just have to edit

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Daerodrome

And change it to "the area around a runway". ;-)

> Another main aspect concerns the mapping as linear feature and or as
> area. [...]

This is a topic that seems to turn up every few months or so.  The basic 
facts are:

* For runways the two node way with optionally a width tag is by far the 
dominating way to map them.  A variety of other methods and suggestions 
exist (linear way + polygon with the same tag, polygon only, linear 
way+ polygon with other tag) but none of them has found consistent use 
so far.
* A four node polygon transports no additional information for a runway 
compared to a two node way with a width tag.
 
-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/



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