Fixed-Wing Runway Design (wbdg.org)

I find it fascinating that runways have to be renamed in response to magnetic north shifting over time.

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-ma...

While interesting (as I'm an airline pilot), is this hacker-news-interesting, per se?

I come here to read news about Doom running on a cucumber, not piloting stuff.

I'd be interested to know what the material differences are between the US DoD standards and FAA/ICAO standards (the article hints that there are) - and also what the difference is between these and a "landing zone" where I imagine it's a grass strip somewhere distant. That's a scenario that naïvely to be seems to be more likely to be temporarily made and therefore in need of standards documents...

You might be interested in the Airman's Info Manual section 2-3-3

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...