[OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping at web.de>
To: "David Groom" <reviews at pacific-rim.net>
Cc: "OSM" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands


> David Groom wrote:
>>> 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)
>>
> Well, I'm not a native english speaker and there are *no* explanations on 
> both the map features and proposal pages about this - so how do you know? 
> Should I ask the list each time when I'm unsure about a tag? I agree that 
> these two should have different tags - maybe adding some more explanation 
> at least to the airport proposed feature page?

see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Proposed_features/Airports#Consistency_with_existing_map_features_scheme

and my comment posted on 26 march.  Though I agree there's a lot of other 
text on the page.

One of the problems I find with proposed features pages on the wiki is they 
quickly fill up with  discussion, and its very easy to miss what is actually 
being proposed.

David

>
> However, I find it a bit strange that this tag is under the "place" 
> section and had a look at the subpage - which doesn't mention place at 
> all! So I moved it in the map features page from place to aeroway section.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>