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Taxiway Holding Position

A marking painted at a position intended to protect a runway, an obstacle limitation surface, or an ILS/MLS critical/sensitive area at which taxiing aircraft and vehicles are expected to stop and hold unless otherwise authorized by the aerodrome control tower.

Layer
taxiwayholdingposition
Geometry
LineString
Feature type
18

See definition: ICAO Annex 14, chapter 5.2.10

Shall be located at the outer edge of the painted ground marking away from the corresponding runway

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Properties

PropType
idlin
string | null

Object Identifier (not unique)

Will match the idlin of the TaxiwayElement that this holding position is located on, unless it has an otherwise identifiable name

Example: A5

catstop

Code describing the low visiblity operation category of the holding position

Example: Cat1: 1

status

Permanent state of feature (exceeding the AIRAC-cycle of 56 days)

Non-permanent closures or outages of less than 56 days are not adressed in the airport maping database but will be addressed via NOTAMS

Example: Open: 1

idp
string | null

Object identifier of the runway or taxiway being protected

For runway holding positions this will the idrwy field, for taxiways it will be the idlin field

Example: 07L.25R

id
number

Unique identifier for this feature instance. Only unique per feature type

feattype
idarpt
string

ICAO aerodrome location indicator

Example: NZCH