[talk-au] emergency highway airstrips

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 08:40:11 UTC 2023


On 17/10/23 08:24, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:aeroway%3Dhighway_strip


Thanks Andrew. That tag is not on the aeroways page .. I have added it

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aeroways

It was out of sequence on 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:aeroway - now corrected. But I 
wounder how I missed it here?


I'll keep the area mapping (aeroway=aerodrome) so as to indicate the 
cleared area

>
> 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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