Awkward title, sorry, but what do we call the spots, in this case a jetty / pier, where a seaplane doing tourism / sightseeing flights, picks up passengers?
The seaplanes apparently operate out of the main Airport & just land here to pick-up / drop-off passengers, so tagging the jetty as an aerodrome seems way over the top!
aeroway=airstrip perhaps, although that doesn’t seem right either?
Most previous discussion that I’ve found has been about mapping the actual seaplane landing areas, which is done under Seamark mapping, but that doesn’t mention these sort of spots?
To the places to get on or to get of, amenity=ferry_terminal with tourism=attraction is used.
Yeah, yeah, I get the hint!
Can’t speak for all of them, but for where we used to have a seaplane land a number of years ago - no! It was just whichever area in the “harbour” that didn’t have boats moored or passing through at that particular moment, also dependent of course on the weather & wind.
I’ll just note that there are other aerial vehicle joyrides, like regular (non-sea) planes for e.g. panoramic views of cities, or helicopter joyrides.
It would be nice to have a way to represent them in attraction=* key too (perhaps generic “aerial_ride” or similar might work? Maybe even more generic like attraction=joyride or attraction=sight-seeing or something like that)
Quite definitely, but most of those sort of flights would originate from an airport of some form, or a helipad, which should (hopefully!) already be mapped.
Adding an attraction tag to the applicable office should work though?
Yeah, but so could/should man_made=pier (or similar) that will be used for boarding the seaplane be mapped too.
But that misses attraction=* point. Just because somewhere exists airport or a helipad or a pier, does not mean I can pay and go on such attraction there (in fact, I’d wager that majority of airports/helipads/piers do not have an joyride attraction included in the offering)
