<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>I've just discovered a document published by ENTSO-E which is the European authority for power Transmission System Operators (like RTE in France or TenneT in Germany : <a href="https://www.entsoe.eu/about-entso-e/inside-entso-e/member-companies/Pages/default.aspx">https://www.entsoe.eu/about-entso-e/inside-entso-e/member-companies/Pages/default.aspx</a>)<br><br></div>This document summarizes a couple of principles for power system elements codification.<br><a href="http://clients.rte-france.com/htm/fr/vie/telecharge/EIC-Reference%20Manual%20v4r4.pdf">http://clients.rte-france.com/htm/fr/vie/telecharge/EIC-Reference%20Manual%20v4r4.pdf</a><br><br></div>I think it would be great to introduce the key ref:EU:EIC to tag transmission power lines, power plant or transmission power substation with it.<br></div>These codes seem to be unique all around Europe and they would allow us to sustainably identify a lot of features (instead of using the OSM ID only).<br><br></div>I only found one instance of eic_code=* on taginfo which actually concern a feature located in Czech Republic (they do have a wikipedia page for it <a href="http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIC_k%C3%B3d">http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIC_k%C3%B3d</a>)<br><br></div>If everyone agree about the key, I may add it to the Power Transmission Refinement proposal<br><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Power_transmission_refinement</a><br><br><br></div>All the best<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>François Lacombe</b><br><br>fl dot infosreseaux At gmail dot com<br><a href="http://www.infos-reseaux.com" target="_blank">www.infos-reseaux.com</a><br><a href="http://www.twitter.com/InfosReseaux" target="_blank">@InfosReseaux</a></div></div></div>
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