Tag:aeroway=aerodrome

Description

An aerodrome, airport or airfield

Rendering in OSM Carto

Group: Aeroways

Used on these elements

Useful combination

How to map

Either create a closed way (or multipolygon relation for some complex shapes) around the extent of the airport land (often co-incident with a barrier of some kind).
Or draw a node in the center of the airport and add aeroway=aerodrome.

Tag	Description
`addr=*`	Contact address for management
`description=*`	Free form text.
`ele=*`	Elevation. Possibly at arbitrary position, tower, runway centerpoint, etc. See individual elevations on runways and their endpoints for more specificity.
`iata=*`	3-character code issued by the IATA and commonly known and used to identify public airports. May not be present for smaller/private airports.
`icao=*`	4-letter code issued by the ICAO.[1]
`operator=*`	The name of the operator of the airport
`owner=*`	The name of the owner of the airport. Some government airports are operated by a separate private company.
`phone=*`	Contact phone number for airport management.
~~`ref=*`~~	Instead of using this key for an airport code, use more specific keys, such as `iata=`, `icao=` and `faa=*`
`source=*`	Source(s) of information present in tags, semi-colon-delimited if necessary.
`variation=*`	dd[.d] [E\|W] [yyyy[-mm[-dd]]] [d.d E\|W] . Indicates the magnetic variation (declination) of the magnetic north pole relative to the geographic north pole, the date of measurement, and possibly the rate of change. Example: "12.8 E 2011-11-17 0.1 W" means that a compass will read north 12.8 degrees east (clockwise) of geographic north on 2011-11-17, and that variation currently changes at a rate of 0.1 degree west per year.
`wikipedia=*`	Main Wikipedia entry about the airport.
`aerodrome:type=*`	Type of airport (international, regional, etc ...)

Tag	Description
`closest_town=*`	Nearest city and state, as defined by the FAA.
`faa=*`	3- or 4-character code issued by the FAA. Usually the same as the IATA code, but not always [2]. Present for smaller/private airports when iata tag may not be.
`FAA:LFSN=*`	The FAA's Landing Facility Site Number - a unique identifier for airports in the US. There is generally no reason to edit this value - it is used to refer back to the FAA database for synchronization of imports. Example: "01818.*A" is the LFSN for LAX.
`source:date=*`	If imported/updated from the FAA 56-day NASR database, this tag will contain the date the database became valid.
`source_ref=*`	Key to source documents. Example: when source=FAA, you may see source_ref=nnnnnAD, which indicates the document number of the FAA Airport Diagram, which are at http://aeronav.faa.gov/d-tpp/vvvv/nnnnnAD.PDF where vvvv is the version number (incremented every 56 days).

Note that many are the result of import from official sources, like the FAA, so be sure your edits are not in conflict.