<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>Thank you for your feedbacks.<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/11/21 Clifford Snow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clifford@snowandsnow.us" target="_blank">clifford@snowandsnow.us</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="im"></div>Central Office is a good general term for telecom offices. There specific types, but central office captures the bulk.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">In the US, our FCC just announced that they would like to see a transition from the older legacy switches to IP based switches. But central offices will remain for sometime.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Ok.<br><br></div><div>I think it's important to distinguish places/buildings from services (DSL,POTS...) they host and kind of local loops connected to (copper, fibre, coax).<br>
<br></div><div>Even if FCC wants to shut down legacy switches in favor of IP, the building will still be called a "central office" according to what a central office is but services provided may change or local loops enhanced.<br>
<br>2013/11/21 Florian Lohoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:f@zz.de" target="_blank">f@zz.de</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Germany had an import from all "Deutsche Telekom" COs<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That's actually very nice !<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Its a man_made=MDF (Main Distribution Frame) - ONKZ is the area code<br>
which is variable length in Germany and we have approx. ~6000 of them.<br>
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A CO/MDF in Germany will be identified through their Area-Code ONKZ<br>
and the ASB (Anschlussbereich) which is a segment of that area code.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>In
my mind, MDF is only a functional part of a central office (like
switches, DSLAM, power supplies). <b>We shouldn't summarize the building
itself to a part inside it</b>, should you ?<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
But i'd favour a group of "telecomunication" based tags. There is more<br>
to be mapped e.g. what we call Kabelverzweiger (Kvz)<br></blockquote><div><br></div>Ok for me, but let's be careful with security and industrial privacy, as usual in OSM.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Before starting using it at a large scale : should we use telecom=* or telecom<b>S</b>=* ?<br>
<br></div><div>Then, it seems we can still use "central_office" for such buildings, but :<br></div><div>- Should we add services it provides ? (DSL,Cable TV,telephone...)<br></div><div>- How would we distinguish a copper central office from optical or coax ones ? Be careful, a copper one can be an optic one or coax one too.<br>
<br><br></div><div>Cheers.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><b>François Lacombe</b><br><br>francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu<br><a href="http://www.infos-reseaux.com" target="_blank">http://www.infos-reseaux.com</a><br>
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