Aircraft maintenance companies

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I’ve seen on the wiki that a company=aerospace tag exists but it seems to describe manufacturers only and does not include maintainers.

How would you tag an aircraft maintenance only company?

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why it would exclude maintainers?

do you want to tag its office or its workshop/industrial area?

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The pages were created by an infamous blocked user. You shouldn’t take it as absolute.

office=company + company= itself is no good. Only 75% of the ~5.8k company= (which isn’t that many) are actually on office= , and 341 are deviant nwr["company"][office][office!=company]; not being on =company . Half of them (3055) can be replaced by office= directly. Key:company - OpenStreetMap Wiki

To give an example by contradiction, communications satellites don’t have to be manufactured by the provider Iridium satellite constellation - Wikipedia

Fundamentally =aerospace is too broad when most features are usually about either aviation or space. And then it doesn’t explain what they are doing. Aviation work quite differently from space, which has a integral service from the launch provider, yet still differentiating with the payload, and often the rocket engine is a part manufactured by others.

Aviation uses the MRO term. It might be difficult to find another word to summarize all of maintenance, repair, and overhaul. Have to choose between “maintenance” and “repair”.

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I edited definition to

company involved in aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft industry

as it is absurd to expect that company=aerospace would be limited to aerospace manufacturing

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Thank you. I figured it was weird to be so restrictive. There is a lack of aviation related tags, don’t know which terms to use either.

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Actually the office is inside the workshop area, but most of it is in fact a workshop. Would tagging as office still make sense?

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if both are present then mapping only one is not wrong, but mapping both would be probably better

I would probably use man_made=works for workshop (unless it is tiny, for some model planes?) + office=company company= for an internal office

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=works does usually relate to manufacturing. railway= has =workshop and =depot , aside from industrial=depot . aeroway= has 2 =maintenance aeroway=maintenance | Tags | OpenStreetMap Taginfo

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Also, landuse=industrial is likely applicable to the general area.