It was June, here's the start of the thread: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-June/002563.html
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Steve Bennett <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> A scan through the wikipedia gives me > >> international airport > >> domestic airport > >> regional airport > >> airstrip or airfield > > > > +1 > > > > Why not adopt the usual subtagging scheme: > > > > aeroway=aerodrome > > aerodrome=international|regional|domestic|etc. > > I have a feeling we discussed this a few months ago. My suggestion > would be to simply use numbers, if you're talking about a ranking > scheme: > > aeroway=aerodrome > aerodrome_level=1|2|3|4|5 > > This avoids all the problems we get when one country uses "regional" > to mean something different from another, and the mappers there hate > using "regional" in a way that is non-intuitive to them. Whereas with > numbers, we can simply say "in Timbuktu, regional is a level 2, but in > Germany it's level 3". > > Also, I definitely think we should try and align to external standards. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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