[Tagging] Draft proposal for Key:aerodrome

[Joseph Eisenberg]

The tag aerodrome=international was meant for airports that have
regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights to another country.

On 9/10/19, Chris Hill <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:
> On 10 September 2019 08:35:42 BST, Joseph Eisenberg
> <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I've started a new proposal for Key:aerodrome.
>>
>>See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:aerodrome
>>
>>This proposal uses aerodrome=* for classification of an
>>aeroway=aerodrome as an international airport, other commercial
>>airport, general aviation aerodrome, private aerodrome, or airstrip.
>>
>>It would deprecate aeroway=airstrip and aerodrome:type=*
>>
>>Values to be approved:
>>* aerodrome=international         - already common
>>* aerodrome=commercial          - new tag
>>* aerodrome=general_aviation  - new tag (default type)
>>* aerodrome=private                  - already common
>>* aerodrome=airstrip
>>
>>Currently the IATA code is quite helpful for finding commercial
>>airports which offer scheduled passenger flights, but a few aerodromes
>>with an IATA code do not have commercial flights.
>>
>>It would be helpful to know which airports have international flights,
>>and the tag aerodrome=international has already been used over 1000
>>times.
>>
>>aerodrome=airstrip is better than aeroway=airstrip, because an
>>airstrip is still a type of aerodrome.
>>
>>aerodrome=private is already widely used, but I'm also recommending
>>adding access=*
>>
>>Comments? I still need to add some examples.
>>
>>- Joseph Eisenberg
>>
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> Any airfield, no matter how small, can make international flights. I have
> used an air taxi service from a small, registered airfield to fly from the
> UK to France. The airfield had no commercial or regular flights, it was used
> by private pilots for fun (usually termed 'general aviation') and for a few
> ad-hoc commercial flights: specialist cargo, on-off passenger runs, a base
> for filming flights etc. Private pilots make international flights from all
> kinds of airfields all the time, so I'm not sure that's a useful
> distinction. People generally want to know if they can get a scheduled or
> charter flight to or from an airport.
> --
> Chris Hill
> ( OSM: chillly)