<div dir="ltr">I'm also thinking that power_supply is different, as it give only information of the type of power plug available in a location ! Implicitly it would probably mean there is electricity there but for private houses, we can't know that information without entering houses, and it doesn't say if they have electricity from the grid or something else. And i don't think the original idea is to get that much details (power_supply is a really specific tag). <div><br></div><div>The proposed electricity tag is more general, and more useful to the idea of knowing if there is electricity or not at some buildings, which can be known from outside the building (like if there are power cable coming from the grid or just asking people a simple question "do you have electricity ?" without needing to visit the house). That's useful information for research and humanitarian uses (especially in developing countries). </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 12:26, seirra <<a href="mailto:general@sarifria.x10.bz">general@sarifria.x10.bz</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    wouldn't the use of access:private be sufficient? that would tell
    people the building is private meaning anything inside must be too.
    power supply already allows voltage and actually does allow
    intermittent now i look back. due to the fact electricity would
    often lead to the presence of a socket (and often all the same type)
    i imagine there might be a difficult overlap is all<br>
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    <div class="m_5482055213044182335moz-cite-prefix">On 08/29/18 10:37, Dolly
      Andriatsiferana wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="auto">Thanks seirra for pointing to power_supply. But I
        don't know if it can really be applied to individual private
        buildings? Because as far as I understand it is to be used for
        services or amenities like camp sites, ie whether you can get
        power there to plug your electrical stuff? The difference is
        that electricity=* (or whatever should be used) is to indicate
        that there's a source of electricity power feeding a
        building/settlement but it doesn't have to be provided as part
        of a service for example.</div>
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        <div dir="ltr">Le mer. 29 août 2018 11:56 AM, seirra <<a href="mailto:general@sarifria.x10.bz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">general@sarifria.x10.bz</a>>
          a écrit :<br>
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            <p>you might find power_supply to be better suited as it is
              already documented <a class="m_5482055213044182335m_-1304628727612128165m_-7692629529063443983moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_supply" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:power_supply</a>
              it already covers all of those topics except for
              intermittent, although if it is relevant i don't see why
              you can't put it<br>
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              08/29/18 05:46, Dolly Andriatsiferana wrote:<br>
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                          helvetica, sans-serif">Hi,</font></div>
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                      <div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial,
                          helvetica, sans-serif">I was searching for a
                          tag to indicate if a building has electricity
                          or not, and if possible to specify the
                          electricity source. I've found no documented
                          tag, but a search on taginfo [1] led me to the
                          key electricity=*. Currently it's being used
                          mostly with values
                          solar/none/generator/yes/always. </font></div>
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                      <div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial,
                          helvetica, sans-serif">On OSM Help [2] someone
                          proposed the following tagging which seems
                          better in my opinion too:</font></div>
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                        <ul>
                          <li>electricity=yes/no/intermittent - to
                            indicate the presence of electricity<br>
                          </li>
                          <li>electricity:source=solar/generator/distribution_company/windmill...
                            - to specify the electricity source</li>
                          <li>electricity:voltage=* - the electricity
                            voltage</li>
                          <li>other details using namespaces...</li>
                        </ul>
                        <div><span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">What
                            do you think? </span>Has someone here used
                          the electricity=* tag before?</div>
                        <div>Afterwards we might be able to start
                          documenting the tag on the wiki.<br>
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                        <div>Cheers,</div>
                        <div>Dolly<br>
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                        <div>[1] <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/electricity" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/electricity</a></div>
                        <div>[2] <a href="https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/65477/indicate-if-a-building-has-electricity-or-not" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/65477/indicate-if-a-building-has-electricity-or-not</a></div>
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