[OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands

[Ben Laenen]

When I look at some other maps, I see that the distinction 
between "airport" and "aerodrome" is done there as well, as they get 
different icons. Even if an airport is a kind of aerodrome.

If everything gets tagged as aerodrome, please make sure the proper tags 
are in place so one can easily recognize the airports on the maps. 
Depicting them the same would be as awkward as displaying a big city 
and a small village the same way.

Furthermore, there are dozens of aerodromes for every airport, which is 
another reason why the airports should be easy to spot.


On the same topic: is there a tag to map the full aerodrome area, like 
one would display parks and forests, instead of just having a node in 
the middle of it?

Greetings
Ben


On Thursday 17 May 2007, Andy Robinson wrote:
> 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.