Tag:aeroway=spaceport
 aeroway = spaceport
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A spaceport or cosmodrome: a site for launching or receiving spacecraft 
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Status: in use
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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 centre.
Add the tag aeroway=spaceport and the name=* if relevant.
Related features
A spaceport area may contain one or more launch pads, landing pads, hangars and other features which should be mapped separately:
Spaceplane landing
Not every runway is suitable, mark them with spacecraft:landing=spaceplane
Lifecycle prefix
For remains of no longer active spaceports, or those under construction, see lifecycle prefix, for example: construction:aeroway=spaceport.
Examples
| Spaceport vs. launch complex vs. launchpad | Landing pad at SpaceX Starbase
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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, cleaned up 23th January 2023)
Rendering
Proposed: 
Röntgen project
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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
- communication:space=* - Infrastructure for space communication Category:Spacecraft_communication
- Proposal to include spacecraft in aeroway key