Re: [OSM-talk] how are runways related to an airport/aerodrome

2009-06-24 Thread Madhav Vodnala
the airports. I agree with your other notes. This is a very generic problem. Not sure how others have solved this issue with other entities you mentioned. Thanks Madhav -Original Message- From: Alan Millar [mailto:a...@bolis.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:21 PM To: Madhav Vodnala Cc

Re: [OSM-talk] how are runways related to an airport/aerodrome

2009-06-23 Thread Madhav Vodnala
All that runway 'way' XML contains is one tag that says it's a runway. The problem is there is no easy way to correlate a runway to its airport. The wiki convention does not create any problem for visual map style applications, because they have spatial awareness. The problem is for non-visual

[OSM-talk] how are runways related to an airport/aerodrome

2009-06-22 Thread Madhav Vodnala
Hi Guys In this Mapping Features documentation page, it says add only http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aeroway aeroway=runway tag to the way to denote it a runway http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Drunway As a result, you will see runways as the following. I have not

Re: [OSM-talk] how are runways related to an airport/aerodrome

2009-06-22 Thread Madhav Vodnala
This is a good idea. Is ICAO code same as the airport code as identified by US DOT?.US DOT provides a lot of useful information on the world airports. http://www.transtats.bts.gov/DL_SelectFields.asp?Table_ID=288DB_Short_Name=Aviation%20Support%20Tables relation definitely seems unnecessary here.

Re: [OSM-talk] newbie question related to ele (elevation)

2009-06-03 Thread Madhav Vodnala
Thanks Tom. That explains it. On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: Madhav Vodnala wrote: There use to be ele tag for nodes. I exported a small area into an OSM file today and I do not see ele tag anymore. Is that removed?. Presumably because nobody felt like

Re: [OSM-talk] R: newbie question related to ele (elevation)

2009-06-03 Thread Madhav Vodnala
the accuracy wouldn't be great everywhere but the coverage should be more extended. F. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_elevation_model -Messaggio originale- *Da:* talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto: talk-boun...@openstreetmap.org]*per conto di *Madhav Vodnala *Inviato

[OSM-talk] newbie question related to ele (elevation)

2009-06-01 Thread Madhav Vodnala
There use to be ele tag for nodes. I exported a small area into an OSM file today and I do not see ele tag anymore. Is that removed?. I saw some discussions around non usefulness of that tag. http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=403 My interest in finding elevation of a