[Talk-us] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags?

[Val Kartchner]

On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 16:47 -0400, Zeke Farwell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> 
> You may or may not know that currently in OSM there is only one
> [rendered] tag to describe the many different types of places where
> planes can take off and land (aeroway=aerodrome).  I'm trying to
> figure out how we can tag tiny airstrips and gigantic international
> airports differently so that renders can decide to show important
> aerodromes at high zoom levels and tiny, unimportant ones only at low
> zoom levels.  
> 
> 
> Here are some tag ideas I'm toying with.  These would all be modifiers
> for aeroway=aerodrome:
> 
> 
> aerodrome=airport    (large aerodrome. many buildings.  commercial
> flights.  international flights)
> aerodrome=airfield    (smaller aerodrome.  few buildings)
> aerodrome=airstrip    (tiny aerodrome.  basically just a runway, often
> just a grass one)
> aerodrome=water      (a place where seaplanes take off and land in the
> water.  same rendering importance as airstrip)
> 
> 
> Please have a look at the Airports:Talk page on the wiki if you are
> interested in this subject.  I've also posted this there.
> 
> Zeke
> Burlington, VT, USA

While you're working on these tags you should add ones for personal
airstrips and ones for RC aircraft.  There are a few of each around
here.  The personal airstrips would be (mostly) where someone takes off
and lands in their ultralight.

- Val -