On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 11:42 -0700, Murry McEntire wrote: > "Street cabinet" has no meaning in my region. Looking at > manufacturer's sites and google images, I do see the term in use in > Britain (and some other places) for above ground enclosures with > vertical hinged doors. Did you also mean to include above ground > enclosures without hinged doors and subsurface enclosures with a > surface door? In the U.S. all types are probably most commonly known > as utility boxes. Utility box has other meanings, so is ambiguous, but > on a map would likely be interpreted correctly > > Perhaps someone could chime in with the British term covering all the > variations?
In the UK a cabinet is used primarily for telecoms cabinets. They are quite common, although less common there are gas cabinets. I am not aware of water or electricity having them. In terms of telecoms, the cabinet is where the cable carrying multiple subscriber lines is split to provide individual lines to each house. The word has become more common since the roleout of fibre started. The term commonly used is FTTC (Fibre to the cabinet). In terms of telecoms, a cabinet does not have to be above ground, it can be accessed with removable covers and be below ground. The term cabinet just mean a small cupboard, it is also commonly used for things in the house such as a 'bathroom cabinet'. Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, François Lacombe > <francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote: > Hi, > > > I was pretty frustrated to don't encounter any common tag to > map street cabinets (trafic lights control, water metering, > phone connection points...) in my city. > > > I was looking for something like man_made=street_cabinet or > whatever but it's not widely used in the DB. > > > Should I propose this new value on wiki (with additional tags > to specify what kind of street cabinet, obviously) ? > > > It would be interesting to document street cabinets since many > of them dangerously deal with pavement accessibility in urban > zones. > > This would be done to prevent specific primary keys about a > particular infrastructure to appear on the map. > > > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. > > Cheers. > > > François Lacombe > > francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu > http://www.infos-reseaux.com > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
