Hey Francois +10 for deprecating power=tower/pole and tag them what they are: a tower or a pole.
On 13.08.2013 16:31, François Lacombe wrote: > > 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* _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
