<div dir="ltr">I'm also using landuse=industrial for towers, substations and all the related gear despite being in a rural area.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-06-30 4:37 GMT+01:00 John Willis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnw@mac.com" target="_blank">johnw@mac.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Which landuse is appropriate for power towers? <div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.tepco.co.jp/pg/electricity-supply/operation/images/img_substation_04.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.tepco.co.jp/pg/<wbr>electricity-supply/operation/<wbr>images/img_substation_04.jpg</a></div><div><br></div><div>here is a picture of some of the towers I am talking about. In this case, most are in or adjacent to a substation.The giant red-white towers in the picture are common in my area, and run across our region. they use a large 25mx25m piece of land for their base. I am talking about these towers when they are by themselves, in farmland or residential areas. <br><div><br></div><div>The giant power towers have a mappable (usually fenced) landuse - the tower bases are usually near some kind of access road, and the land for towers is as large as a housing plot. Farmers do not farm under the base, even if there isn’t a fence, making it a separate landuse from whatever is around it. </div><div><br></div><div>Somewhat related, micromapped solar panel installations: the panels themselves are the power generators, but it seems wrong to tag the landuse of a field of solar panels as a “power plant” - as solar panels (and wind farms) are very distributed and could be mixed land use, and are passive - they don’t seem to be “power stations” in the way that coal, oil, nuclear, or even solar-thermal stations are), and although I have been usng landuse=industrial, it seems to not fit really well. Perhaps that is an incorrect choice, but I don’t know what to use. </div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/504120713" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/504120713</a></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/503938829" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/503938829</a></div><div><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/504121156" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>way/504121156</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Similar to landuse=highway and landuse=railway, there are landuse values for the areas used by part of a system - but not an important or active part of the system, like the train tracks between stations. </div><div><br></div><div>Is there a landuse=power? there are currently 9 landuse=power uses in OSM. the one in Japan is surely a mis-tag. But maybe landuse=power as a catch-all for land used by passive generation and transmission is a good idea. </div><div><br></div><div>advice?</div><div><br></div><div>Javbw</div><div><br></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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