Map Features
OpenAviationMap's free tagging system allows the map to contain unlimited data about its elements, like run runways, navaids and aerodrome buildings. The community agrees on certain key and value combinations for tags that are informal standards, allowing us to improve the style of the map and do analysis that relies on the attributes of features. Shorter summaries of tags relevant to particular topics or interests can be found using the Feature pages.
The majority of features have a small number of tags, like a path with a single tag for classification, like aeroway=runway, and perhaps a name with using name=*.
For details of more tags and proposed changes to existing tags see Proposed features and Deprecated features. If you do not find a suitable tag in this list then feel free to make something suitable up as long as the tag values will be verifiable; over time you may find that the tag name is changed to fit will some wider consensus, however many good tags were used first and were documented later. Information about OAM tags is available as a machine-readable semantic network.
Primary features
Aeroway
Mainly relating to aerodromes, airfields other ground facilities to support the operation of airplanes and helicopters. See Aeroways for an introduction to the mapping these features.
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
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| aeroway | aerodrome | Node Area | An Aerodrome (UK), Airport (US) | ||
| aeroway | apron | Area | A place where planes are parked. | ||
| aeroway | gate | Node | Used to mark the gate numbers at the airports. |  | |
| aeroway | helipad | Node Area | Helicopter start/landing pad |  | |
| aeroway | hangar | Node Area | Hangar | ||
| aeroway | runway | Way Area | A strip of land kept clear and set aside for aeroplanes to take off from and land on. (Other languages) | ||
| aeroway | taxiway | Way | Where airplanes manouevre between runways and parking areas. | 
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| aeroway | terminal | Node Area | Airport passenger building |  | |
| aeroway | windsock | Node | Used to mark the position of a windsock. | 
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| aeroway | User defined | Node Way | All commonly used values according to Taginfo |
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
Traffic circuit
A traffic circuit is a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing, while maintaining visual contact with the airfield. See traffic_circuit for an introduction to the mapping these features.
| Key | Value | Element | Comment | Rendering | Photo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| traffic_circuit | yes | Area | Tag this way as traffic circuit. |  | |
| traffic_circuit:height | number | Area | The height of the traffic circuit in feet |  | |
| traffic_circuit:aircraft | ACFT / HEL / GLD / GLDP / UL | Area | Restrict the traffic circuit to certain types of aircraft |  |
This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
