* Rick Marshall <rick.marsh...@verticalgeo.com> [2013-04-23 12:37 -0500]: > 1. How do you mark Precision Approach Path Indicator (PAPI), Visual > Approach Slope Indicator (VASI), VOR, and other Navigational Aids at > airports.
As far as I know, there isn't a widespread way of tagging these things. I turned up this wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dnavigationaid but using type= for the type of navigational aid is probably not the best approach (because it's too generic as a tag and because it's already in use for determining relation types). I would probably do one of two things: 1. tag a VOR, for example, as aeroway=navigationaid, navigationaid:type=vor and add something to the aeroway=navigationaid wiki page about using navigationaid:type= instead of just type=. 2. Join the tagging@ list, suggest the above as a general tagging scheme and see what, if anything, comes out of the resulting discussion. You will need a fair bit of patience to go this route and it's a lot easier if you have been working with OSM data (contributing, consuming, or both) for a while first. > When I tag my edits as aeroway=vasi or aeroway=papi they don't show up > on the map. Is there a better way to tag the edits? Not at the moment. The main map rendering attempts to show a large subset of the various things in the OpenStreetMap database, but it typically doesn't go very deeply into specialized subsets of the data. There are other renderings that are more narrowly focused, like OpenSnowMap for ski resorts and winter sports or ITO Map's railways view. Things like these navigational aids would probably only be rendered by a specialized air traffic infrastructure map rendering, but I'm not aware of any such renderings that actually exist at the moment. (ITO Map has an "airport details" map at http://www.itoworld.com/map/163 , but it's pretty rudimentary.) > 2. Who decides the geographical limits of an aerodrome? Normally, it should be the land specifically (and, usually, legally) set aside for it. This approach tends to work best for larger and dedicated-use airports. For smaller facilities where the land is shared-use (e.g. a farm that has an airstrip on it), either you do your best to outline only the land that is exclusively for air traffic or you just put a node roughly in the middle of the area with the aerodrome tags on it. _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
