On 10-Oct-17 04:13 AM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Max <abonneme...@revolwear.com> wrote:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/42.4014/-76.5581
in this area there are 7 runways. Two are called "field" three "Airport" and
one even is called "International Airport" none of them is paved.
Once again, it's a set of categories that doesn't quite fit the US.
To the FAA, an 'airport' is pretty much defined as the
place where you plan to land. Whether landing there is
lawful is a matter of state law, and some states, such as Alaska,
place very few restrictions on where a pilot may land (with the
permission of the landowner, of course).
FAA does require notification (not permission) if a landowner
constructs improvements to make an airport and conducts
more than ten operations in a day or operates more than
three days a week. That's in order to publish the locations
of runways in the Airports and Facilities Directory.
A bush strip, 2000 x 60 feet, in Alaska, with 4-foot-tall grass
and 8-foot-tall willow in the 'runway', which is also used as
a road by mining equipment, still gets a listing as an
'airport'.
We don't have a well-defined category of 'airstrip'. From
the field where some farmer operates his crop duster,
up to the busiest of hubs, they're all 'airports'.
They may or may not be illuminated,
lit=*
Looks lite that can all be tagged
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aeroway
... and so on ...
The words and values used in OSM do not necessarily have the same meaning as
the local definitions.
In fact there should be a comparison between the two before use of the data in
OSM.
An 'airstrip' that has no facilities I would map in OSM as a runway without any
other aeroway features.
So not aeroway=airport.
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