[OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands

[Andy Robinson]

David Groom wrote:
>Sent: 17 May 2007 12:47 AM
>To: OSM
>Cc: OSM
>Subject: [OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands
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>----- 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
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>> 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 :-)
>>
>>
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>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)
>

When defining the original map features list I looked at this fairly closely
and decided from investigation that aerodrome was the most used definition
of a place to land, store and maintain aircraft regardless of size. The word
gets used within the aviation industry to describe both small facilities and
major airports and thus that's why I picked it over and above anything else.

Here's an example: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/aerodrome

In my view they should all be called aerodrome but with the additional tags
that define if it's a facilities and landing strip construction.
Having said that, for the layman, place=airport is a logical poi tag.

Cheers

Andy

Andy Robinson
Andy_J_Robinson at blueyonder.co.uk


>David
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>> Regards, ULFL
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