[OSM-talk] Proposed aeroway=apron

[Jon Burgess]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 14:18 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 20:05 +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 22:00 +0000, Ray Booysen wrote:
> > > Sounds like a great idea.  I've been mapping some runways, but have
> > > always left the aprons alone.
> > 
> > The information about runways is somewhere publicaly available,
> > flightgear (open source flight sim) has every airport and airstrip
> > worldwide. 
> > 
> > Maybe asking the terragear.org guys how to do this?
> 
> It was based on DAFIF, which has now been taken out of the Public Domain
> thanks to "security", more like insecurity.
> 
> Flightgear's data is the same stuff used in X-Plane, and it is under the
> GPL. (meaning we can't use it, due to licence incompatibilities.)  It is
> available at http://www.x-plane.org/home/robinp/

I have a copy of some older DAFIF data. Has anyone declared whether we
can add OSM data based on this?

I wrote a perl script which converts the airport locations into an OSM
file and it looks like the runway data could be converted too.

	Jon