[Tagging] Runway area mapping?

[John Willis]

> On May 21, 2019, at 10:35 AM, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  if this is considered necessary?


Similar to riverbank, sometimes the shape (and it’s irregular outline, where it meets taxiways and aprons) is good to have for rendering at higher zoom levels where lines no longer show the proper land usage and areas more accurately reflect reality. anything that takes up the space of a village or a town should be mappable with a polygon in some fashion. 

As most airport facilities are already mapped via area (the apron, the overall airport grounds, the terminals, the grassy areas, parking, etc), so having *the* major feature that takes up a ton of space and is also easily mappable from imagery also mappable as an area seems like a common thing to map as an area.

keeping the information on the way (like the ref and other details) and using this :area tag modifier to map the extent of the surface seems great to me.  

Javbw
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