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Jan Olieslagers

绘图者注册于:
2010年11月14日
最后地图编辑于:
2025年09月11日

Mainly mapping aerodromes all over Europe, with attention to standardisation. Also harmonising aerodrome information between various open sources of information. And occasionally some small correction or addition near where I live , in Portugal.

Some guidelines/habits/preferences I apply for mapping aerodromes:

  • define an “aeroplane” broadly: airliners, helicopters, gliders; but not drones or R/C models
  • define an “aerodrome” in the ICAO meaning of the word: any terrain, on land or water, used exclusively or not for the operation of aeroplanes
  • every aerodrome should have one or more runways or helipads
  • every runway should be part of an aerodrome or airstrip
  • very simple aerodromes may be mapped as “aeroway=airstrip”, or “aeroway=aerodrome” plus “aerodrome=airstrip”
  • “aeroway=airstrip” is thus an alternative for “aeroway=aerodrome”, not for “aeroway=runway”;
  • aerodromes for use only by helicopters can be “aeroway=heliport”;
  • if an airstrip consists of only a runway, then we can have separate entries for the runway and the airstrip, overlapping; this is my very personal exception to the rule of “one thing in the terrain, one entry in the OSM database” principle; the reason is that flight planning goes from aerodrome to aerodrome, not from runway to runway;
  • terrains for R/C, drones, parapente, hang-gliding, free flying &c to be mapped “leisure=pitch”+”sport=…” ; optionally can also get “aeroway=airstrip”. This is common practice (not introduced by me!) for ULM terrains in France;
  • like with all other entries, care should be taken to avoid double information in the database. Often I come across a terrain mapped both as a node and as a way, I consider this a quite grave error;
  • removing aerodrome entries should be very exceptional: only when not anything of the field remains visible can it be considered. Even then, it is very likely to be re-added, which can even lead to revert-wars. Much better to add an extra tag like “disused=yes” or even change the basic entry to “ruins:aeroway=aerodrome”;
  • contrary to what the wiki states, I consider it acceptable, sometimes even preferrable, to map a runway as an area rather than as a line. The tag area:aeroway=runway should imho be avoided, it only wastes valuable database storage capacity;

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日记条目 Mapping of runways

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日记条目 Russian aerodrome codes: transcribing the Cyrillic characters

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日记条目 Codes for Russian aerodromes

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