Description

A fixed signal, mark or light erected for the guidance of mariners or aeroplane pilots.

Topo50 description

Only those significant either by their size or location are held in the data and shown on the printed maps. Where a beacon is located close to a trig, the beacon point symbol is replaced on the printed map by the text 'Beacon'. If two or more beacons are in close proximity, a single beacon feature may be held in the data and shown on the printed map.

Topo250 description

Only lighthouses are held in the Topo250 data and shown on Topo250 maps : that is where beacon_type = lighthouse

Map image

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Representation specification

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Example

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Aerial view

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Class attributes

Attribute	Value
Object class	beacon_pnt
Entity class	BEACON
Additional entity class	Not applicable
Object inheritance	simple_point
Entity source	US Standard Entity
Map series	Topo50 Topo250 Ant50
LSLIFF object class	3

Object attributes

Attribute	LSLIFF code Shapefile field Data type	Attribute description	Attribute values*
name	1001 name string	The name of the beacon, where known. Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use the name_ascii attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed. UTF-8 stands for Unicode Transformation Format-8. It is an octet (8-bit) lossless encoding of Unicode characters. UTF-8 encodes each Unicode character as a variable number of 1 to 4 octets, where the number of octets depends on the integer value assigned to the Unicode character. It is an efficient encoding of Unicode documents that use mostly US-ASCII characters because it represents each character in the range U+0000 through U+007F as a single octet. UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML.	"Karori Rock Light" {empty}
name_macronated	1140 macronated boolean	Indicates whether the entry in the name_ascii field contains a macronated vowel. Where the value is "Y" go to http://www.linz.govt.nz/regulatory/place-names/find-place-name/find-m%C4%81ori-place-names-dual-names-and-alternative-names for a list of places or feature names within New Zealand that are gazetted and include macrons	Y N
beacon_type	1004 type string		lighthouse {empty}
beacon_location	1005 location string		land sea lake
beacon_status	1124 status string	derelict: In a state of disrepair, no longer safe to use.	derelict historic {empty}
name_ascii	9000 name_ascii string	Text data from July 2012 will be in UTF-8 format. If your system is not UTF-8 compliant, you will need to use this attribute, which has had any macronated vowels removed.
UFID	1000 t50_fid integer	A unique identifier for use on Topo50 data in the LINZ Data Service. This is not a universal ID. The intention is to manage these ID’s as persistent, however this is not guaranteed and there will be instances where what appears to be a minor change to a feature may result in a new ID being assigned.	"3254886"

* See explanation of attribute values for more information about how attribute values are represented.

Change log

Feature version	Revised	Description
7	2012-08-28	Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
6	2012-08-28	Added scale-specific definitions
5	2012-08-16	Name attribute in UTF-8 format; added name_ascii attribute
4	2010-03-01	Added name_macronated attribute
3	2001-11-23	Unspecified update
2	2001-09-05	new attribute
1	1999-03-01	intial status