User:Pieleric/aerodrome

aerodrome
Proposal status:	Abandoned (inactive)
Proposed by:	pieleric
Tagging:	aerodrome=international, regional, airstrip
Applies to:	type
Definition:	*
Statistics:
Rendered as:	rendered by default
Draft started:
Proposed on:	2011-08-01
RFC start:	???

Rationale

Like highways there are severals sizes of airports. Like in Highway (primary, secondary, tertiary) there should be made a differenc by size (airport = major, minor, landingfield) as on highways thers are different types of vehicles (highway = foot, bicycle, car motorcycle, or even horse), on airports there are airliners, (smaller) propeller planes, gliders, helicopters, and even rc model planes. Now every Airport / Airdrome /Landingfield is rendered the same way. I think it makes a difference, whether we have major Airports like Frankfurt International or some smaller glider landingfield.

taxonomy from aviation jargon.

The tag should be always be accompanied by the more generic tag aeroway=aerodrome.

• aerodrome

Rendering	Feature	Feature Type	Key/Value Pairs	Comments	Examples
	Node	Physical	<tag k="aeroway" v="aerodrome"/> <tag k="aerodrome" v="international"/>	International airport: A major airport, which also has a role of a hub (where non-direct flights may land and passengers switch planes). Equipped with customs and immigration facilities. Many scheduled flights, with at least some to other countries. Often has 3 or more runways, which can host even the very large commercial aircrafts. Note that having the word "International" in the official name is not enough to be such a an airport Wikipedia offers an seemingly exhaustive list of these airports: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_airports_by_country	Frankfurt or London Heathrow

1. = regional (for smaller Airports) in Germany they are call Regionalflughafen (regional airports)
2. = airfield (for smaller airports with no or few scheduled flights, mostly for general aviation, most aircraft are private planes and can host less than 10 passengers, rarely more than 2 runways, home of aero club. eg: Waterford Airport, Lamar Municipal Airport, Aérodrome de Royan-Médis)
3. = airstrip (as the lowest class of a landing place, sometimes only bush pilots know where they are. Just one runway, no or almost no facility)

See taginfo [1]