[talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

[Ian Sergeant]

On 1 October 2015 at 21:17, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/10/2015 4:50 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
>
> I guess I was talking about navigating there by aircraft.
>
> A 'point' calculated for an aerodrome area would be good enough until you
> had to select a runway .. where you would want the end points of the runway
> .. not the node of the aerodrome (most of them look to be place on/near the
> main building anyway).
>
>
Yes - it isn't about finding the runway! :)  But you would really like the
heading to align with the flight plan.  And the heading will always be
calculated to a specific point on the aerodrome.  There is no way to
automatically calculate this point.

I'm not standing in the way of the anti-nodists.  I'm just pointing out for
those who maintain that there is always a automatic way of calculating the
best node point for an area that this is not the case.  Like we have found
for administrative areas.

But this information is maintained in other databases, so it's just one
less use-case for OSM.

Ian.
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