Given the number of these first do we really want to map them and second
perhaps something more concise to prevent filling up the database quite so
much.  I speak merely as a retired database administrator you understand.

Cheerio John

On 19 April 2015 at 19:26, Bill & Kathy Patterson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> That looks very helpful, Stefano, but I should have thought that
> "generator:method=thermal" would apply to thermal combustion.  While I
> agree that old Sol is a heat source, is it not convention that for power
> generation "thermal" is used for coal, oil, and gas, but not for nuclear or
> solar?  And then of course there is geothermal.
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Stefano <[email protected]>
> *To:* Help for newbie mappers <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Sunday, April 19, 2015 4:11 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [OSM-newbies] How to tag Solar Hot Water panel?
>
> Hi,
> you'd need to use the tag power=generator, see this wiki page for
> information
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dgenerator
>
> You'd use probably
> power=generator
> generator:source=solar
> generator:output=hot_water
> generator:method=thermal
> generator:output:hot_water=3 kW
>
> and so on, either on a node or an area...
>
> Regards,
> Stefano
>
>
> 2015-04-19 18:56 GMT+02:00 Alan & Ruth Bragg <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
> The Everglades National Park has large solar hot water arrays that provide
> hot water to the restrooms at Flamingo. The panels are mounted on
>  structures about 20 feet from the restrooms.
> I cannot find an appropriate tag. Can anyone help. It seems to me there
> must be thousands if not millions of solar hot water panels in the world.
>
> Thanks
> Alan Bragg
> 51 Hancock St
> Bedford MA 10730
> 339-545-1737 mobile
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