[Tagging] Runway area mapping?

[Paul Johnson]

On Mon, May 20, 2019, 21:57 Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 11:36, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The current wiki page suggests using "aeroway:area=runway" to map the
>> outline of the runway, and mapping the "aeroway=runway" as a line
>> along the center of the runway.
>>
>> Does everyone agree that aeroway:area is the right way to map runway
>> areas, if this is considered necessary?
>>
>> And do we agree that runways should be mapped as linear ways, like
>> highways and railways, not only as an area?
>>
>
> I must admit that I only ever map the runway as a way, not an area.
>
> On the subject, I've just had a look at a few, & I see that there's now an
> option (in iD at least) for "Runway number", which then apparently appears
> as ref=.
>
> I've always put the runway number "14/32" in as the name=, & it's always
> seemed to work OK.
>

That should be ref=14;32, but otherwise, I agree.
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