Two comments:<br><br>1) For a non-expert it is difficult to assess how many circuits a power line carries without having access to the operators' documentation.<br><br>2) I notice that the wiki page uses the term "cable" for overhead power distribution. According to my knowledge and Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_power_line">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhead_power_line</a>) overhead power lines are implemented with "conductors". Cables (i.e. insulated conductors) are normally not used in overground transmission.<br>
<br>Volker<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2013 00:05, Ole Nielsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:on-osm@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">on-osm@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
As already mentioned in a previous thread I have been drafting a definition for a new "circuits" key describing the number of electrical circuits of a power line or cable connection. See the feature page at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:circuits" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Key:circuits</a><br>
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The new key is mainly intended for underground cable connections (power=cable) where the number of cables is unknown or has no fixed relationship with the number of electrical circuits.<br>
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I have now added this key to the power template expecting nobody will have major objections to this additional key. The circuits key will not affect current tagging practice. It will however allow mappers to add an important extra information to power lines and cables, an information that it is not always possible to deduce from the existing cables=* tag.<br>
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The circuits=* key is now visible in <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<u></u>wiki/Key:power</a> and map features.<br>
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Ole / polderrunner<br>
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