Hi, A long discussion with multiple ideas given is currently taking place about power poles and hosted features on the talk feed of the Substation refinement proposal. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/Substation_refinement#Transformer_type
As explained in proposal/talk/previous mails, since both poles / towers and transformers are values of the power=* tag, we can't put them together when a transformer is a the top of a pole. Many tricks promote some extra tags like power=pole + transformer=distribution (power=transformer is here implicit) but they sound like tricks to me. Another possibility would be to deprecate power=pole and power=tower and use man_made=pole and man_made=tower+tower:type=power It would allow us to have nodes with man_made=pole + power=transformer or any other hosted feature. A transformer has more to share with power domain than the pole itself (which only is a man made building in landscape). I'm aware that there are currently a very big amount of features tagged with power=pole or power=tower. Nevertheless it's more consistent than the model we are using now, which wasn't designed to take transformer or such detailed feature in account. Let's talk about that.... Cheers. *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu http://www.infos-reseaux.com
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