[OSM-talk] Massive import of airports

[Blake Crosby]

Hi Alan,

I would like to go one step further. For an example of what I mean, 
check out my home airport, CYKZ 
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=43.86025&lon=-79.37129&zoom=16).

You will notice nodes for things like:

- Windsocks
- VASI/PAPI

And other details like runway width, and surface (on the runway ways).

The idea being to eventually render all the necessary details to get 
around an airport (as a pilot).

The problem (at least here in Canada) is that Nav Canada owns the 
copyright to all these details, so unless you know the airport 
intimately it's hard to get such details.

If the licence from the FAA allows, I would be willing to spend the time 
to import the data into OSM. I could probably go so far as to 
automatically add runways since I beleive the FAA publishes runway 
threshold lat/longs.

Blake

On 20/12/2010 12:59 AM, Alan Mintz wrote:
> 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.
> --
> Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
>
>
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