It is a military base that allows civilian air traffic to use its runway. As far as air traffic goes it's called Williamtown, only the civilian terminal area is called Newcastle airport. (28 hectares of land)
https://www.newcastleairport.com.au/corporate/about/board-governance Hope that helps, though no map of that land parcel that they lease for the civilian side. > -----Original Message----- > From: cleary <o...@97k.com> > Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2020 6:29 PM > To: OpenStreetMap <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Duplicate of the same airport > > > > I think the air force base and civilian airport share the same runway but > they are > two distinct entities with separate buildings etc. Same applies in some other > cities including Canberra. I would defer to someone more knowledgeable but I > think it remains appropriate to have two separate entities mapped in OSM. > > > > On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, at 7:06 PM, Nemanja Bracko (E-Search) via Talk-au > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > There are two relations in OSM that are referring to the same airport: > > > > * https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6263052 > > * https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/4145466 > > > > > > > > The first one has a *aeroway:aerodrome* tag, the second one has a > > *military:airfield* tag. > > > > > > I’m not sure should I merge these two relations since there are some > > sporadic differences for the same tag in both relations. Please, I > > need an extra hand on this. > > > > > > This is an isolated case in whole Australia. > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > Nemanja > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-au mailing list > > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
