[OSM-talk] areodraome / airport WAS Islands

[Lester Caine]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Ben Laenen wrote:
>> Furthermore, there are dozens of aerodromes for every airport, which is 
>> another reason why the airports should be easy to spot.
>>   
> Well, this completely confused me now! If an aerodrome is a small 
> airport (or an airport for small planes), how will an airport contain 
> several aerodromes then?!?

Actually if there are a couple of helicopter services as well as separate 
runways for commercial and private takeoff's then they can be classified as 
one airport but with four "aerodrome's". Aberdeen Airport has at least three - 
if my reading of the flightpath routes is correct.

>> 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?
>>   
> It would be easy to extent the aerodrome/airport tag for an area as well.

Runway and taxiway areas - within an 'aerodrome' area - within the airport.

>>> 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.
> What would the poi tag be useful for, if there's an airport/aerodrome 
> tag for the area?

While an overall tag for an airport may be useful, access may be by one of 
several routes depending on where you are going. Terminal 1, Terminal 2 etc. 
So may require a bit more detail.

I would suspect that aerodrome *IS* actually the wrong base tag, but once 
again it's probably just a matter of multiple languages having different 
translations :(

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