Hi guys, There are currently flight paths data in OSM such as the Manila-Davao path, Manila-Singapore path, Manila-Bacolod path, and maybe others. I personally don't think these would be useful in OSM per se. Maybe in another website that collects GPS flight tracks. Take note that flights do not generally stick to a fixed path and this depends on the time of day, weather conditions, air traffic levels and other variables. Thus, a particular path collected by GPS is not necessarily the "real" path.
On the other hand, we can say the same thing for ferry routes but we map these anyway. On the other hand again, ferry routes do not overlap other data in a confusing way, which flight paths do. (I think I've seen a node on the Davao-Manila flight path merged with a POI node in Cavite once before.) This issue has been discussed recently in other parts of the OSM community: http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/297/does-it-make-sense-to-upload-aviation-tracks-to-osm http://www.mail-archive.com/t...@openstreetmap.org/msg33802.html What do you guys think? Should we retain and add flight path data or do we remove them? Eugene (osm:seav) _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph