I know that this has been discussed various times, but as there was no outcome besides generic ideas (number of flights, international flights, number, length and surface of the runway and other intense preprocessing or external (=currently not available) detail requiring stuff) I raise again the question: why don't we map "bigger" airports with aeroway=airport?
The reason why I came to this issue is in the mapnik stylesheet (I know, don't tag for the renderers, but a rule already in the "main" stylesheet definitely would help in this transition). The thing is that the current mapnik stylesheet does indeed already include a different icon and would render aeroway=airport on lower zooms (Z9 if I recall right). Usually it is quite simple for every mapper to name the more important airports of his city (e.g. in Rome it would be either Fiumicino or Ciampino, I never heard of someone leaving or arriving at another airport, in London it would be Heathrow, Luton, Stansted, Gatwick, City, and maybe some other, but at least those would be clearly standing out before all those other airfields and airports). Have a look here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=42.16&lon=-88.536&zoom=10&layers=M could you tell which are the more important ones? Not at first glance I guess. A finer and more granular/elaborate distinction could still be applied (later or in custom renderings), but this would at least help to identify the well known and most important ones (in which people are usually interested when flying with an airline instead with their own private jet). Comments? Cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
