[OSM-talk] Flight "paths" in OSM

Aun Johnsen lists at gimnechiske.org
Sun Oct 10 15:34:48 BST 2010


If there is any interest of mapping airline routes, than do it with a
relation between the airport nodes, as great circles can easily be
calculated between two known positions. Making lines on the map is easy
enough when you have the end positions, and nodes in between is not
necessary at all.

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Yeah, mapping routes between airports is a bad idea.
>
> On the other hand, it might be feasible to map approaches to airports as
> shown on official diagrams. There are also "avigation easements" that might
> be relevant here.
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