On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org> 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 soccer pitch or a big lawn in a park in normal situations.
This is exactly right to my understanding and tagging. My understanding and as I have mapped in the past a aeroway=helipad is for a known built up permanent for the most part landing area. I mapped a lot of these in Nepal. > There is already "emergency=landing_site" defined and used 1800 times that > seems to fit the purpose of Blake exactly? > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency%3Dlanding_site This does sound like exactly the right tag for what we are planning on mapping. > On 22.11.2016 14:02, Andrew Errington wrote: >> >> 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" <bgirar...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bgirar...@gmail.com>> 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 > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
