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Military Tags

Posted by kaerast on 10 March 2009 in English.

Seems we could do with some more military tags. I spent much of yesterday finding airforce bases from various sources around the internet, confirming they existed using landsat/open aerial map/Yahoo, and adding in what I could. We now apparently have every airforce base in Taiwan and Afghanistan added, though I wouldn't be so sure there aren't missing ones.

Anyway, the things I got stuck on were:

* Helicopter Landing Zone. There is aeroway=helipad though so I tended to use that.

* military=airfield. It's documented and there is a josm icon for it, but it'd be nice to see it rendered.

* military=missile_base. Is being used lightly (2 in Europe) but doesn't get rendered anywhere

* rocket launch pad.

* man_made=mast

* tagging a military base with multiple names

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