On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 20:39, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Where, in your (or anybody else's) scheme of things does the BT Tower fit? > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Tower > > Its primary purpose was for microwave communications and replaced an > earlier steel lattice > mast (wikipedia calls it a tower but from the description it was a mast) > on the site. It contained > office space, galleries, a souvenir shop and a rotating restaurant. Due > to security concerns, public > access to the tower ceased in 1981. >
So it would have been a man_made=communications_tower (which I want to rename multipurpose) but after 1981 should have been changed to man_made=tower tower=communications Given that public access to the BT tower has ceased, is it now a mast? I > think not. :) > Definitely not! > But I do think it > needs some sort of tagging to distinguish it from the likes of > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preseli_transmitting_station > (even though it is sometimes referred to locally as "The Big Tower"). > Yep, that would be a man_made=mast tower:type=communication > > And then there are oversized lamp-posts for mobile phones. And there's an > ordinary telephone > pole near me, with wired connections to surrounding houses, which also has > two crowns of > flat plate antennae for mobiles. And I've seen a couple of > strange-looking small antennae in my > local town that might be GSM or might be part of the current UK emergency > services network. Oh, > and there's a radio ham near me with a Versatower (or similar) laden with > antennae. > Yep, when does a pole become a tower? Doesn't seem to be any definition that I can find that says that one becomes the other at x metres tall, or when there are more than y things attached to it? But I've always called these https://www.google.com/maps/@-28.0642511,153.4367305,3a,75y,169.28h,116.4t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sqWVrnPMgsfc-fBLPmwFp-A!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo0.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DqWVrnPMgsfc-fBLPmwFp-A%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D203%26h%3D100%26yaw%3D206.28014%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656 mobile phone towers, with telephone or power poles in front of it. Thanks Graeme
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