Hello,
I'm responsible for the massive import of airports yesterday. First of
all, I would like to apologize for its outcome.
My intention was to map some of the missing airports from OSM. My
methodology was as follows:
- Check to see what data is already in OSM. Download the data from the XAPI.
- If a node in OSM was within 0.1' of a node in the ourairports.com
data, then do not import.
As you can see there was a flaw. Not all airports in OSM have nodes,
but they use ways/areas instead.
As someone pointed out on the list, I did forget step two for a few
heliports, and had to revert. This is why you saw some duplicates
appear, then dissapear.
My second mistake was not talking to the community first, and for that I
apologize.
I was careful to ensure that the data did have the correct licence,
which can be found at www.openstreetmap.com/data/ . If I was incorrect
in assuming that Public Domain was not allowed, please let me know.
Moving forward, I will be glad to revert all my changes or I can work
with the community to improve the data quality.
Blake
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