On Friday, October 5, 2018, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I don't know how many of the 3500 worldwide are actually > communications_towers bu that definition, but I'd guess not more than a > dozen or 2? >
There are already more than a dozen in the small country of Switzerland. > I'd like to suggest that we deprecate that tag, settle on the engineering > definition given to differentiate between masts & towers: > > "In structural engineering, *mast* is a vertical structure, supported by > external guys and anchors. > This is the only existing definite feature that could be used to > differentiate masts and towers." > > & start cleaning things up. > > Your thoughts? > If this is the only common differentiation between masts and towers, then i don't disagree using it. However i'm wondering how many radio masts/towers have been tagged according to the distinction latter outside vs steps/lift inside. Besides, for people like me that are really bad at estimating height, but still want to differentiate small mobile phone 'towers' like [1] from big TV towers like [2], i think it would make sense to use a tag like tower:access=inside/outside. [1]: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mobile_Phone_Mast_near_Gore_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1703520.jpg [2]: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aerial_view_-_Fernsehturm_St._Chrischona5.jpg Regards Markus
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