Tag:aeroway=spaceport
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A spaceport or cosmodrome: a site for launching or receiving spacecraft ![]() |
Group: Aeroways |
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Status: in use![]() |
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Wikidata |
Q194188 |
The tag aeroway=spaceport is used to map a Spaceport. A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving
Spacecraft (vehicles designed to fly in outer space).
How to map
- Create a closed way around the extent of the spaceport area (often co-incident with a barrier of some kind).
- For complex boundaries create a relation:multipolygon and add the tags to the relation.
- If the area of the spaceport is not clear, use a node at the center.
Add the tag aeroway=spaceport and the name=* if relevant.
Related features
A spaceport area may contain one or more lauch pads, landing pads, hangars and other features which should be mapped separately:
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Launch pad for transport rockets. For missiles see military=launchpad, for miscellaneous man_made=launch_pad | aeroway=launchpad | |
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Landing pad for rockets | aeroway=landingpad | |
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Hangar for aircraft or spacecraft | aeroway=hangar | |
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Runway - used by some spacecraft , not necessarily at a spaceport, see list of Space Shuttle landing sites. There are also hybrid spaceports. | aeroway=runway |
For remains of no longer active spaceports, or those under construction, see Lifecycle_prefix, for example: construction:aeroway=spaceport
Examples
Landingpad at Cape Canaveral
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Common tagging mistakes
Don't call every structure within the spaceport area (also) aeroway=spaceport, as this leads to a wrong number of spaceports in taginfo (and any other consuming app/map). See aeroway=* for alternative tags.
Example Baikonur Cosmodrome (6th February 2021) in Overpass turbo
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See also
- For an overview of airports and aviation in OpenStreetMap see Aeroways.
- Aviation
- Aerospace
- military=launchpad - Launchpad used for military purposes
- man_made=launch_pad - Another tag for launch pads: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=launch_pad
- Proposal to include spacecraft in aeroway key