Tag:aeroway=spaceport

aeroway = spaceport
Description
A spaceport or cosmodrome: a site for launching or receiving spacecraft
Group: Aeroways
Used on these elements
Useful combination
name=* operator=* website=*
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 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:

A list of spaceport-related tags and values. Refers to aeroway=*.

Picture	Descripiton	Tags	Taginfo
	Spaceport, i.e. a set of launch complexes, launch pads and facilities where rockets or spacecrafts are being processed, launched and/or returning.	aeroway=spaceport
	Launch complex, i.e. a part of a spaceport made of one or more launchpads and facilities (to not confuse with aeroway=launch_pad)	aeroway=launch_complex
	Launch pad for rockets, i.e. the actual place where a rocket is being launched. It is usually part of a launch complex. For missiles see military=launchpad, for miscellaneous man_made=launch_pad	aeroway=launchpad
	Landing pad for rockets	aeroway=landingpad
	Hangar for aircraft or spacecraft	aeroway=hangar
	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For remains of no longer active spaceports, or those under construction, see Lifecycle_prefix, for example: construction:aeroway=spaceport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

Rendering

Proposed:

Rendering in Röntgen project

Tag	Rendering
aeroway=spaceport
aeroway=launchpad
aeroway=landingpad

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