[talk-au] emergency highway airstrips

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

& by an amazingly scary co-incidence, I was just reading another forum
which mentioned these two videos!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK10UiizJF8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZktxR5xAX1I

Thanks

Graeme


On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 at 07:28, Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com> wrote:

> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dhighway_strip
>
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2023, 20:18 Warin, <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> How do we tag emergency highway airstrips, as used by the RFDS? I
>> thought this was documented on the Australian tagging guidelines but I
>> cannot see it..
>>
>> I have used this as an example
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/493146070
>>
>> for a rough area cleared for the wings and a turning area.
>>
>> aeroway     aerodrome
>> military     airfield
>> name     Royal Flying Doctor Service Emergency Airstrip Stuart Highway
>> wikipedia     en:Highway strip#Australia
>>
>>
>> together with
>>
>>
>> https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/493146071
>>
>> for the centre line of the runway itself. Note the highway exists as a
>> separate way.
>>
>> aeroway     runway
>> ref     13/31
>> source     survey
>> surface     asphalt
>>
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Anyone have thought on this? I'm not certain of
>>
>> military     airfield .. may not always be military though this area is
>> surrounded by it.
>>
>> name     Royal Flying Doctor Service Emergency Airstrip Stuart Highway
>> .. more of a description possibly operator???
>>
>>
>> Once this is discussed .. then I'll put it in the Aust. Tagging
>> Guidelines thingy.
>>
>>
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