[OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping at web.de>
To: "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com>
Cc: "OSM" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Islands


> David Earl wrote:
>> place=airport has even more widespread actual use. The proposal has 
>> several
>> additional tags, which also seem to be widely used. But no votes with 
>> this
>> one.
>>
>> OJW, you proposed it by the look of it, do you want to move it forward?
>>
> aeroway=aerodrome is already in map features!
>
> Having two tags for the same thing is probably a bad idea :-)
>
>

I would have thought that an aerodrome and an airport were two very 
distinctly differnet things

an airport would be somewhere major airline flew in to something like 
Heathrow (ICAO=EGLL)

an areodrome would be used by light aircfraft, something like Bembridge 
Airport (ICAO=EGHJ)

David

> Regards, ULFL
>
>