Also, how would you tag facilities that have one or more helipads (landing pads for helicopters), but no runways for fixed-wing aircraft?
-- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria -----Original Message----- From: Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:56:27 To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools<tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Aeroway=Aerodrome Modifier Tags? On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Zeke Farwell <ezeki...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > You may or may not know that currently in OSM there is only one [rendered] > tag to describe the many different types of places where planes can take off > and land (aeroway=aerodrome). I'm trying to figure out how we can tag tiny > airstrips and gigantic international airports differently so that renders > can decide to show important aerodromes at high zoom levels and tiny, > unimportant ones only at low zoom levels. > Here are some tag ideas I'm toying with. These would all be modifiers for > aeroway=aerodrome: > aerodrome=airport (large aerodrome. many buildings. commercial flights. > international flights) > aerodrome=airfield (smaller aerodrome. few buildings) > aerodrome=airstrip (tiny aerodrome. basically just a runway, often just > a grass one) IMHO, if the only distinction between them is size/importance/hierarchy, then it just creates pain and confusion to create all these extra words, particularly for non-english speakers. Why not: aeroway=aerodrome importance=1 importance=2 etc. Make 5 intercontinental airports and 1 tiny amateur airfields. This also avoids the problem when Podunck Airfield is actually an international airport (yet "aerodrome=airfield" seems more intuitive), and removes a whole bunch of subjective issues to do with the connotations of each name. Steve _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
