Tag:aeroway=spaceport

The tag aeroway=spaceport is used to map a Spaceport. A spaceport or cosmodrome is a site for launching or receiving Spacecraft (vehicles designed to fly in outer space).

How to map

• Create a closed way around the extent of the spaceport area (often co-incident with a barrier of some kind).
• For complex boundaries create a relation:multipolygon and add the tags to the relation.
• If the area of the spaceport is not clear, use a node at the centre.

Add the tag aeroway=spaceport and the name=* if relevant.

Related features

A spaceport area may contain one or more launch pads, landing pads, hangars and other features which should be mapped separately:

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Spaceplane landing

Not every runway is suitable, mark them with spacecraft:landing=spaceplane

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Lifecycle prefix

For remains of no longer active spaceports, or those under construction, see lifecycle prefix, for example: construction:aeroway=spaceport.

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Examples

Spaceport vs. launch complex vs. launchpad	Launch pad at SpaceX Starbase

Common tagging mistakes

Don't call every structure within the spaceport area (also) aeroway=spaceport, as this leads to a wrong number of spaceports in taginfo (and any other consuming app/map). See aeroway=* for alternative tags. Example Baikonur Cosmodrome (6th February 2021, cleaned up 23th January 2023)

Rendering

Proposed:

Röntgen project

Tag	Rendering
aeroway=spaceport
aeroway=launchpad
aeroway=landingpad

See also

• For an overview of airports and aviation in OpenStreetMap, see aeroways.
• Aviation
• Aerospace
• military=launchpad – Launchpad used for military purposes
• man_made=launch_pad – Another tag for launch pads: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=launch_pad
• communication:space=* – Infrastructure for space communication Category:Spacecraft communication
• Proposal to include spacecraft in aeroway key