Re: [Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

Hi all, Just to follow up on this, I used the ‘old aerodromes’ topic as a test for the new version of MapRoulette, find the beta at http://maproulette.org:8080 If you want to change or add anything to the challenges there, I can give you admin access to do so yourself. I appreciate any

Re: [Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

* Andrew Wiseman [160412 23:27]: > [..] > Or maybe there should be some tag difference between a proper airport with > scheduled flights, a civil aviation airport, and just a field where a > farmer might land? Actually there is a tag, or rather there are two: The wiki page

Re: [Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

I'm also glad to see this, and wish I had thought to mention it when I first saw it! I was mapping in Knoxville, TN and there were a dozen airports that clearly didn't exist. Most had in the past but weren't now, so I tagged them with the appropriate life cycle prefix. I also noticed a ton in SW

Re: [Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

Many of them may be valid, and could be nothing more than a farmer's private grass landing strip for his cropduster. The FAA does have a regulation requiring anyone establishing or closing an airfield (a private farm strip qualifies) to notify the government, but they don't really police it.

[Talk-us] Old Aerodromes

Hi, I was mapping some rural area in the U.S. and noticed, not for the first time, an aerodrome node in the middle of a field where there is obviously no airport or airfield. So I decided to collect all aerodrome nodes in the U.S that have not been edited since 2013 and make a MapRoulette