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 this way is wrong. Or right. Thanks, Andrew On Nov 22, 2016 8:41 PM, "Blake Girardot" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > 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 pilots collecting the basic minimum critical ground > survey items for an HLZ for their aircraft type. > > They collect the data and provide it in the public domain and I would > like to map it. > > I think the vast majority of the items collected are already well > supported in OSM, trees, light poles, ground type, area, grade, > landuse. > > What would be the best way to map this data? Does it need its own > namespace? Just map regular OSM tagging and render the data myself > custom? > > 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 light poles and ground type, landuse. It is publicly > available data (CC0). > > Other data could and should be added specific to HLZ's so we will need > to discuss any non traditional tags that I would like to see be used > for the HLZs mapped. > > Cheers, > Blake > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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