[Talk-ca] Airports

[Richard Weait]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Blake Crosby <me at blakecrosby.com> wrote:
> Ahh... it's nice to be back on the list.
>
> From the archives I see there are some new faces. Let me re-introduce my
> self. I'm user bcrosby and started mapping the town of Aurora, Ontario back
> in 2008.
>
> I've been busy since then with another project called World Flight Planner
> (www.worldflightplanner.com) which allows pilots to plan their flights.

Welcome back!

We're doing OSM meetups in Toronto and KW, almost every month.  Come
on out and meet the gang.

> I'm going to incorporate some airport information from OSM into my
> application. In the mean time, I'm also going to improve Airport data
> quality in OSM. If nobody has any objections, I would like to put some
> tagging guidelines in the Canadian Tagging Guideline Wiki Page
> (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canadian_tagging_guidelines) for airport
> specific information.
>
> I will be sure to keep them aligned with the guidelines found at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Airport .

Would it make sense to make the additions to global airport, and point
the Canadian airport tagging at the global guidelines?