Actually, lightning rods prevent large lightning strikes, by encouraging a series of small discharges, without the potential building up to the point that a devastatingly-large lightning strike takes place.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [OSM-newbies] tag for "lightning conductor" (pararayosin spanish) >From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Wed Oct 06 12:01:57 America/Chicago 2010 En/na Richard Weait ha escrit: > On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I searched in the wiki and I did not find a tag dor lightning conductor. >> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod]. Is there any tag dfor that? >> > > Dear Xan, > > In what context would it be appropriate to add lightning conductors to > the map? They are common on buildings, communication towers, etc., > but I think they are insignificant compared to the main structure. > Even given a place with a large number of lightning conductors, like > the Lightning Field art installation[1], I think I would be more > inclined to mark the area, rather than individual lightning rods. > Mmm. I'm not convinced. They are small like clocks could be, and we have tags for clocks. For the other hand, it could be lightning conductors without any structure below: I live near a place (amenity=pedestrian, area=yes) with a lightning conductor in the middle 8-| And in many mountains they are near communication installations. > Do you have something else in mind? Have I missed another application > of these objects? > One application is obvious: the knowledge for the knowledge (kiddy). Serious applications, I don't know. Perhaps for knowing the probability of hitting lightnings? > Best regards, > Richard > > [1] http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~king/earthworks/TheLightningField.htm > Mmm... interesting. I don't know that "strange" art ;-) Xan. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
