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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/03/19 13:31, Sergio Manzi wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-03-06 03:20, Warin wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/03/19 12:38, Sergio Manzi
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:8338d846-e8d4-6eee-296a-c63cc55e68bd@smz.it">Also,
if on the other hand you don't expect all TV antennas to be
mapped, what will be the value of such fragmentary and sparse
information? "<i>Cui prodest</i>"? Who is going to benefit
from such information? Those with a concrete interest in such
information will surely already have their accurate sources of
information and disregard our fragmentary and sparse
information of unknown accuracy.</blockquote>
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Unfortunately people are tagging antennas .. in all sorts of
ways. And it is a mess. <br>
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I seek to provide some constancy so that the information is at
least usable for those that want it. <br>
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A short look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/antenna%3Atype#values"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/antenna%3Atype#values</a>
will give you a feeling of what is happening and why there needs
to be some guidance on it. <br>
The numbers are small .. but best to provide some guidance now
rather than end up with 'oh but it is in use so we cannot fix it
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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>
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I am one of those 88. Well at least one who has modified other
peoples work on some antennas that have been mapped. <br>
An example ... Way: <bdi>Murchison Widefield Array</bdi> (<bdi>607964749)
- there will be 2,048 dipole arrays here .. I have chose to map
them as an area as that is easiest at least for the moment. <br>
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I have tagged it as<br>
"website"=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.mwatelescope.org/">"http://www.mwatelescope.org/"</a><br>
"man_made"="telescope"<br>
"telescope:type"="radio"<br>
"name"="Murchison Widefield Array"<br>
"description"="2048 dual-polarization dipoles when combined
forms a single telescope"<br>
"antenna:polarisation"="dual"<br>
"antenna:configuration"="dipole array"<br>
"antenna:propagation"="reception"<br>
"frequency"="80 - 300 MHz"<br>
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There are located near a collection of other radio telescopes ...
higher frequency ones .. with steerable dishes. <br>
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<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.</p>
<p>The only antennas I would personally map and tag are those who
are enough conspicuous to represent landmarks.<br>
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The ones I am mapping are certainly conspicuous. <br>
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So .. what is the best way to map them? <br>
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That is the function of this list, does not matter how many.. just
get the tagging as good as we can and then let the mappers use or
not use it. <br>
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