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airmark = beacon
Description
Base tag for beacons used in aerial radio navigation
Group: Aeroways
Used on these elements
Useful combination
beacon:type=* beacon:code=* beacon:frequency=*
See also
aeroway=navigationaid man_made=beacon
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Radio navigation beacons support the different radio aeronautical navigational systems that help pilots guide their aircraft during flight. These facilities are particularly useful during bad weather (like fog, or low cloud), and for flights operating under IFR.

Those include:

• NDB Non-Directional Beacon
• ILS Instrument landing system
• VOR VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range
• DVOR Doppler VHF Omnidirectional Radio Range
• DME Distance Measuring Equipment
• TACAN Tactical Air Navigation
• RSBN Radiotechnic System for Inner Navigation (ru: Радиотехническая Система Ближней Навигации)

For visual navigation systems use aeroway=navigationaid.

How to Map

Place a node at the location of the beacon, and tag with airmark=beacon.

Tagging

• airmark=beacon
  • beacon:type=* - see Examples section below
  • beacon:code=*
  • beacon:frequency=*
  • beacon:channel=*
  • localizer=yes, glideslope=yes - additional tags to mark subtype of ILS beacon
• operator=*
• ele=*

Examples

Photo	Tags	beacon:type	Description
Glide path	airmark=beacon beacon:type=ILS beacon:frequency=* glideslope=yes	ILS	ILS
VHF Omni Directional Radio Range	airmark=beacon beacon:type=VOR beacon:code=* beacon:frequency=*	VOR	VOR
D-VOR Antenna (circle with 50 antennas)	airmark=beacon beacon:type=DVOR beacon:code=* beacon:frequency=*	DVOR	DVOR
DVOR-DME	airmark=beacon beacon:type=DVOR;DME beacon:code=* beacon:frequency=*	DME	DME
Non-directional beacon	airmark=beacon beacon:type=NDB beacon:code=* beacon:frequency=*	NDB	NDB
Tactical Air Navigation System	airmark=beacon beacon:type=TACAN beacon:code=* beacon:channel=*	TACAN	TACAN
Radiotechnic System for Inner Navigation	airmark=beacon beacon:type=RSBN	RSBN	RSBN

Past usage

There was no clear standard of tagging various navigation aid systems in the past. Therefore our data consumers should expect to find these systems marked with any of these tags:

• aeroway=navigationaid
• aeroway=beacon
• beacon=airmark
• man_made=beacon

Also the type of the system was often referenced by key type=*.

See also

• aeroway=navigationaid - for visual navigation aids
• man_made=beacon - often used as a complementary tag to this tag