[Tagging] drones

[stevea]

I'm not saying a key like drone=* (as a "verb," like "to drone here, whether or not...?") is or isn't a good fit for OSM.  I am wondering if it is a good fit, I honestly don't know.  The number of fuzzy-hanging-off-into-infinity-of-details-ever-changing-laws-and-rules-regarding-weight-and-one-million-other-little-things boggles my mind, but I could imagine something gets shoehorned into an OSM tag (-ging scheme), if one was really insistent upon doing this.

It is an "odd" fit, though.  There are places you are not allowed to hang-glide, paraglide or pilot other aircraft, but (as a pilot of such craft) it is up to me to know how, where and whether I might fly in any given location.  Same with drones.  I wouldn't expect OSM to tell me definitively one way or another whether I should or shouldn't, it simply doesn't seem like the correct database in which I'd reach as the first place to look for such guidance.  But, I don't want to stand in the way of "progress," if that's what someone wants to do.  Good luck.  It seems complicated, but I suppose "if you build it they will come."  A good match (key, tagging scheme) for OSM?  I don't know.