[talk-au] NPWS landing sites task

[Andrew Harvey]

On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 at 17:56, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Question re this Map Roulette task, thanks.
>
> I take it these details have come from a NPWS list of some form that says
> there is a landing site at "this" spot.
>

Yes that's right.


> So, even if it shows as just a patch of bare ground, we tag it as a
> landing site?
>

This dataset is saying that the patch of bare ground is a landing site,
either an emergency one or actual helipad. Remember we're not just mapping
any available patch of bare ground as an emergency landing site, only those
which NPWS have designated as emergency landing sites.


>
> Node or area?
>

Up to you both are fine, but unless there is some kind of boundary you can
see I'd just go with a node.


>
> Of the few I've looked at, one was a very discernible flattened out square
> of dirt which I tagged as an area, another was just a clearing in the
> forest so I put a node there, while the third was just a spot in an open
> paddock.
>
> & it would appear that emergency=landing_site doesn't render in any way -
> does that matter?
>

That's okay, typically something only starts getting rendered by maps and
apps once it has some usage, so actually mapping it helps justify getting
it into maps and apps.
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