Proposal:Airport concourses

Airport concourses
Proposal status: Draft (under way)
Proposed by: Kovposch
Tagging: aeroway=concourse
Statistics:

Draft started: 2024-04-13

Proposal

Separate concourses from terminals.

Rationale

Terminals vs concourses matters for presentation in application. A passenger going to an airport only needs to look at terminals first, then the concourses after entering. Making many aeroway=terminal inside the airport makes them less useful, cluttering the results with inaccurate info. Applications, routers, renders can prioritize proper aeroway=terminal over aeroway=concourse by clearly separating them. aeroway=concourse is currently used in Richmond, and Ft Lauderdale Hollywood.

Tagging

  • aeroway=concourse
    • terminal:ref=* : To explicitly refer to the aeroway=terminal , other than by being spatially contained inside
    • concourse=*
      • concourse=main
      • concourse=satellite

Examples

  • JFK T4 concourse A and B: Despite being a piers layout, they are called concourses
    • aeroway=concourse
    • name=Concourse A
    • ref=A
    • terminal:ref=T4
    • concourse=main

Rendering

Features/Pages affected

External discussions

  • Talk:Aeroways#Aeroway=concourse

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