[talk-au] farm airstrips

[Andrew Welch]

Considering there's also a "hanger" there that doesn't seem to be 
visible on any aerial imagery I just checked, I'm in favour of deleting 
it. It just doesn't seem to actually exist, and I question where the 
name came from.

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Thanks,
Andrew Welch
mail at andrewwelch.net

On 29/04/2024 5:34 pm, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> the DWG was contacted by the owner of some farmland about an 
> aerodrome=airport that was mapped on their property and which they 
> would like to have removed since it was not a published airstrip and 
> while they occasionally used it for take-offs and landings they don't 
> want ir promoted.
> 
> My standard response in cases like this would be "I can mark it 
> access=private but if something is clearly there, I cannot remove it."
> 
> I have checked with aerial imagery though and there is absolutely 
> nothing on the aerial imagery that would set this "airstrip" apart from 
> the neighbouring grassland. Yes it looks like I could land a plane 
> there, but I could also land a plane the next field over, or a little 
> bit further east or west - it all looks the same. I assume that there 
> might be a clue locally like a windsock or so, but other than that, 
> nothing.
> 
> I'd therefore be tempted to delete the airstrip from OSM. Opinions 
> about that? Here's the area:
> 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-38.3681/145.3901
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
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