[Tagging] History of "aerodrome" changes (was: Aerodrome classification)

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Tue May 21 10:03:33 UTC 2019


On 20/05/2019 13:10, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:
> History:
>
> In the very early years of OSM, there were three types of features
> where planes could land: aeroway=airport for airports,
> aeroway=airfield for undeveloped airstrips, and  aeroway=aerodrome for
> general aviation sites, if I understand the history correctly. These
> were rendered differently back in 2008, it appears, based on the old
> discussion in the talk pages.
>
> However, at some point all of the aeroway=airport and aeroway=airfield
> features were edited (I don't know if it was done over a few months or
> all at once) to aeroway=aerodrome, which was defined to mean any place
> where aviation operations regularly take place, except for military
> airports, which are tagged miltary=airfield.

I've also heard that, but what I've never been able to find is the 
object history that explains exactly what happened when.

Does anyone know of any features that were originally "aeroway=airport" 
or "aeroway=airfield" or similar and got retagged?

Best Regards,

Andy





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