Tag:beacon:type=TACAN

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Public-images-osm logo.svg beacon:type = TACAN
TACAN Antenna.jpg
Description
A Tactical Air Navigation System is a navigation system used by military aircraft to provide bearing and distance to a ground or ship-borne station. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: aeroways
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysshould not be used on areasshould not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
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Status: in use

A Tactical Air Navigation System, commonly referred to by the acronym TACAN, is a navigation system used by military aircraft. It provides the user with bearing and distance (slant-range or hypotenuse) to a ground or ship-borne station.

See also Tactical air navigation system on Wikipedia

How to map

Set a node node where the transmitter is and add airmark=beacon + beacon:type=TACAN

Tags used in combination

Photo

Taunus temporary VOR.jpg

Symbol

Pictogram TACAN.svg

Symbol for TACAN

See also