Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

Blake Girardot writes: I think issues of does the data belong in OSM are separate issues, I am just interested in how to map it and tag it well. I would be mapping nothing but ground truthed data that we already map every day, trees and

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

That sounds good for the wooden (!) helipad visible in https://binged.it/2gdSX38 , too. That's no longer in regular use, and the H has been removed from it, because the fire tower visible to the southwest is no longer staffed. It's still viable for an emergency (and sees an occasional flight to

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

>-Original Message- >From: Tom Pfeifer [mailto:t.pfei...@computer.org] >Sent: mercoledì 23 novembre 2016 00:49 >To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >Subject: Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing >zo

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Greg Troxel wrote: > >>> On Nov 22, 2016 8:41 PM, "Blake Girardot" wrote: >>> >>> I have worked with folks doing ground surveys of helicopter landing >>> zones during emergency response. >>> >>> These are ground

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > aeroway=helipad should be used only for built-up infrastructure, not for > emergency places that have a different use normally. > > An emergency landing place is nothing but a predefined clear space, it could > be a

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

On 22.11.2016 15:52, Alberto Nogaro wrote: I had always thought that "a large H painted on it visible from the air" was enough to mark the spot as aeroway=helipad, even if the place is mainly conceived for emergency purposes. As we just learned from the Korean mountains example, some light

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

>-Original Message- >From: Tom Pfeifer [mailto:t.pfei...@computer.org] >Sent: martedì 22 novembre 2016 14:33 >To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging@openstreetmap.org> >Subject: Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing >z

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

>> On Nov 22, 2016 8:41 PM, "Blake Girardot" wrote: >> >> I have worked with folks doing ground surveys of helicopter landing >> zones during emergency response. >> >> These are ground truthed locations, observed by active search and >> rescue helicopter

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

aeroway=helipad should be used only for built-up infrastructure, not for emergency places that have a different use normally. An emergency landing place is nothing but a predefined clear space, it could be a soccer pitch or a big lawn in a park in normal situations. There is already

Re: [Tagging] How might we best map emergency helicopter landing zones?

I tag them as aeroway=helipad, and it looks like this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/35.2932/127.5317 There are a lot of them in the mountains of Korea. Usually marked out with a pattern of white stones embedded in the ground. Would like to know if there's a better way, or if doing it