On 21 February 2011 11:08, Alan Mintz <alan_mintz+...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 2010-08-26 05:08, Tom Chance wrote: > > On 26 August 2010 13:43, André Riedel <riedel.an...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > The source of energy used (generator:source) Combined with > 'generator:method=fission' you have to add 'uranium_235'. If change the > whole system, please add 'wood', 'wood_pellet', 'diesel', 'crude_oil'. > > > I thought about that for values like "biomass" and "biofuel". Again, it is > perhaps getting more detailed than we need in OSM. After all, "wood" could > be broken down into any number of sources such as "coppiced_FSC_wood" and > "waste_municipal_tree_cuttings" :-) > > > The problem is that diesel and gasoline do not fit in any of the other > documented categories, yet both are commonly used for backup generators. If > people are to tag those (perhaps important in countries without a stable > electric grid), they will vastly outnumber all the other fuel sources. Is > there any objection to my adding generator:source=diesel and > generator:source=gasoline to the documentation? > Not at all. You might want to add explanation in brackets to make clear that "oil" doesn't include gasoline/diesel/etc. Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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