Talk:Tag:aeroway=navigationaid

Comparing aeroway=navigationaid and airmark=beacon

It came to light that there are two parallel tagging schemes for aircraft navigation infrastructure, aeroway=navigationaid and airmark=beacon (Note: linking to the German wikipage as there is not much documentation on the English airmark=beacon page). The table below compares them. In addition, some features with each tag are cross-tagged with man_made=beacon, and there are even some beacon=airmark tags too. :S

Top level tag
aeroway=navigationaid	airmark=beacon
Type
navigationaid=*	beacon:type=*
Frequency
frequency=* Note: used with many other tags	beacon:frequency=*
Code
ref=* Note: used with many other tags	beacon:code=*
Technology Acronyms
approach_light (not an acronym, but widely used) als dme ils ndb papi (aeroway=papi and aeroway=landing_light, landing_light=papi also used) tacan tls vor vor-dme vortac waas Note: uncapitalized	NDB VOR ILS TACAN DME Note: capitalized

Aerial lighthouse

How to tag historical  Aerial lighthouse used to guide aircraft with lighted beacons at night?

1. aeroway=navigationaid + beacon:type=*
2. airmark=beacon + beacon:type=*
3. man_made=beacon + beacon:type=*
   • beacon:type=light
   • beacon:type=fire_beacon
4. man_made=tower + tower:type=*
   • tower:type=navigation
   • tower:type=navigation_beacon
   • tower:type=navigational_aide_light
   • tower:type=navigational_aid
   • tower:type=navigationaid
   • tower:type=navaid
5. man_made=lighthouse + ?

--Pyrog (talk) 19:15, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

man_made=lighthouse is for watercraft, so it is incorrect Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 20:01, 13 September 2019 (UTC)