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<p>On 2019-03-06 08:46, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/19 3:31 AM, Sergio Manzi
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My friend, there are 88 persons who have mapped 520 antennas (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/antenna"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/antenna</a>).
<p>Compare it to the billions of antennas out there and I think
we are far below the "<i>noise level</i>" and that all energy
"invested" in trying to regulate this is... lost energy.<br>
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The only antennas I would personally map and tag are those who
are enough conspicuous to represent landmarks</p>
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We are currently at 7252 for man_made=antenna alone (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=antenna">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=antenna</a>)
and then there are all the strange things such as (man_made=mast +
tower:type=communication) which may or may not record a mast with
antennas.<br>
<p>But yes, my goal is landmarks such as conspicuous parabolas,
not my neighbour's pet yagi.</p>
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<p>oops, yes, you're right, I only checked those antenna that do
have an associated antenna=* key (<i>about 1 in 15</i>), but
anyway we are not talking about huge numbers.</p>
<p>To put things in perspective, and just as an example, we have
about 186000 amenity=drinking_water, that is an antenna every 26
water taps...</p>
<p>If for those 7252 antennas (<i>out of billions</i>) someone is
willing to tag technical characteristics like operating frequency
and polarization, my objection about verifiability and
observability still hold, but please, go ahead if you really want.</p>
<p>I still fail to see <u>who could benefit</u> from that
fragmentary, sparse, information of unknown quality: I surely
would not (<i>but I'd probably be interested into knowing how high
the antenna stands and approximately how big it is...</i>).</p>
<p>Sergio<br>
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