[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

[Alan Mintz]

I reviewed the subject airport imports in southern CA.

I'm surprised that there were only 16 imports in bbox=-122,33,-115,38 given 
the mentioned 23000 nodes total. Must be other parts of the world that were 
not well-covered?

They are all private facilities, and I tagged them access=private. This is 
probably why they were missing from earlier imports to begin with. One of 
the heliport was non-existent, while others were mis-placed by up to 100m. 
Also, none of them had identifiers (probably as a result of being small, 
private facilities unknown to ICAO & IATA), though I was able to find FAA 
identifiers for them.

There is a lot more useful info available in the FAA datasheets, like 
runway elevations/slopes/weight limits, airport elevation, magnetic 
variation, fuels, etc. Is anyone interested in or working on this? It would 
be relatively simple to scrape from the FAA datasheets or imports them from 
their dataset if available.
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>