The tag aerodrome=international was meant for airports that have regularly scheduled commercial passenger flights to another country.
On 9/10/19, Chris Hill <o...@raggedred.net> wrote: > On 10 September 2019 08:35:42 BST, Joseph Eisenberg > <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote: >>I've started a new proposal for Key:aerodrome. >> >>See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:aerodrome >> >>This proposal uses aerodrome=* for classification of an >>aeroway=aerodrome as an international airport, other commercial >>airport, general aviation aerodrome, private aerodrome, or airstrip. >> >>It would deprecate aeroway=airstrip and aerodrome:type=* >> >>Values to be approved: >>* aerodrome=international - already common >>* aerodrome=commercial - new tag >>* aerodrome=general_aviation - new tag (default type) >>* aerodrome=private - already common >>* aerodrome=airstrip >> >>Currently the IATA code is quite helpful for finding commercial >>airports which offer scheduled passenger flights, but a few aerodromes >>with an IATA code do not have commercial flights. >> >>It would be helpful to know which airports have international flights, >>and the tag aerodrome=international has already been used over 1000 >>times. >> >>aerodrome=airstrip is better than aeroway=airstrip, because an >>airstrip is still a type of aerodrome. >> >>aerodrome=private is already widely used, but I'm also recommending >>adding access=* >> >>Comments? I still need to add some examples. >> >>- Joseph Eisenberg >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Tagging mailing list >>Tagging@openstreetmap.org >>https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > Any airfield, no matter how small, can make international flights. I have > used an air taxi service from a small, registered airfield to fly from the > UK to France. The airfield had no commercial or regular flights, it was used > by private pilots for fun (usually termed 'general aviation') and for a few > ad-hoc commercial flights: specialist cargo, on-off passenger runs, a base > for filming flights etc. Private pilots make international flights from all > kinds of airfields all the time, so I'm not sure that's a useful > distinction. People generally want to know if they can get a scheduled or > charter flight to or from an airport. > -- > Chris Hill > ( OSM: chillly) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
