NZ Topo - object class runway_poly

This page describe the runway_poly object class used to represent objects in the NZTopo topographic database.

Description

The usable surface where aircraft land and take-off.

Topo50 description

All known instances captured; note that the oustide perimeter of large airports are held as 'airport_poly'. In the case of airstrips, the availability cannot be relied upon as farmers may graze the land and/or erect temporary fences

Representation specification

Representation specification showing runway_poly

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See also: airport_poly

Class attributes

AttributeValue
Object classrunway_poly
Entity classRUNWAY
Additional entity classNot applicable
Object inheritancesimple_area
Entity sourceUS Standard Entity
Map series Topo50 Ant50
LSLIFF object class337

Object attributes

AttributeLSLIFF code
Shapefile field
Data type
Attribute descriptionAttribute values*
runway_use1088
runway_use
string
Values
airstripan area that consists only of a grass (sometimes limestone) runway in a remote location
aerodromeother airfields licensed by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand, and also military airfields
airportthose used for scheduled air services
airstrip
aerodrome
airport
runway_status1089
status
string
disused
{empty}
runway_surface1120
surface
string
Values
{empty}Any other surface other than sealed
sealed
{empty}
name1001
name
string
The name of the airstrip, where known. Runwaus within airports are, currently, not named. 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.
{empty}
"Rangitaiki Airstrip"
name_macronated1140
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
name_ascii9000
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.
UFID1000
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 versionRevisedDescription
62015-06-03Provided more information in the Topo50 description field
52012-08-28Updated map image and aerial view; added representation specification and example feature photographs
42012-08-28Added scale-specific definitions
32008-04-10Removed reference to seed and void objects
22001-11-23Unspecified update
11999-03-01intial status