[talk-au] farm airstrips

[Phil Wyatt]

May have been an eager mapper after this incident but certainly no sign of a formal or informal strip there

 

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/plane-flips-after-landing-gear-malfunctions-on-victorias-french-island/video/f61a249832fb86f3fad6be0aa92c3ce6

 

 

From: Andrew Welch via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 6:32 PM
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] farm airstrips

 

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 <mailto: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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