Length of runway would definitely be the better factor. Even for things where a pilot has had his sectional lost or destroyed, has no radio contact, but happens to have the area cached on OSM trying to find any runway to land on (even if it means it'll take a JATO to take back off from it). On Jul 3, 2014 8:42 AM, "Martin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2014-07-03 13:44 GMT+02:00 John Packer <john.pack...@gmail.com>: > >> This way we could also take into consideration the "alternatively >> international" airports i.e. airports that only receive international >> flights when the original ones can't. >> I read in wikipedia[2] there are some airports that do have international >> flights, but are limited to some close countries, and are therefore called >> "regional". Perhaps we could treat this case in this same key. >> > > > > this essentially can be condensed to "length of runway", because this > implies bigger airplanes, and bigger airplanes tend to fly longer > distances. If there is a small airfield close to the border, you might have > international (regional) flights also with very small planes. > Anyone remember Mathias Rust ;-) > http://socks-studio.com/img/blog/mathias-rust-04.jpg > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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