<div><div dir="auto">Are these pole currently mapped with power=pole?</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 7:50 AM Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Around me, the 'poles' carry;<br>
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power,<br>
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cable internet,<br>
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cable TV (some times the cable carries both TV and internet combined) and<br>
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telephone.<br>
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The don't usually have poles for each service.<br>
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The provision of a national internet service that provides a combined telephone service means that the telephone cable will be no more.<br>
There is also a reduction of 'landline' telephone as many have dropped that service as they now all have cell phones.<br>
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On 26/05/19 21:32, Joseph Eisenberg wrote:<br>
> I recently checked the wiki and taginfo, and was surprised that there<br>
> does not seem to be a preferred way to tag telephone poles, in<br>
> contrast to power poles and lampposts.<br>
><br>
> Options in use are:<br>
> 1) man_made=utility_pole - used 4 930, has a short wiki description:<br>
> "A single pole supporting elevation of any of various and unspecified<br>
> public utilities, such as power transmission, lighting or telephony"<br>
> - so this can also include power poles or poles used for multiple<br>
> types of utilities or lamp posts which also support wires.<br>
><br>
> 2) communication=pole - used 3316 times, no wiki page<br>
> <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/communication=pole" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/communication=pole</a><br>
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> 3) man_made=pole - used 2251 times, no wiki page<br>
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> 4) telephone=pole - used 1108 times, no wiki page<br>
> <a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=telephone&value=pole" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/?key=telephone&value=pole</a><br>
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> User "Chippy" made a wiki page that documents the various tags in use<br>
> for telecom lines, poles and cabinets, back in 2015, but none of the<br>
> various tags seem to be approved or clearly de facto in use by<br>
> mappers: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Telecoms#Telephone_Poles" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Telecoms#Telephone_Poles</a><br>
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> There is also not much tagging of telephone cables (or wires?), but<br>
> there is a documented tag, communication=line - with a wiki page but<br>
> no proposal, used 2550 times. This says "Only the main connections,<br>
> mostly sea cables, should be mapped."<br>
> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:communication%3Dline" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:communication%3Dline</a><br>
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> Perhaps there is a need for a proposal to map minor communication<br>
> cables, eg. communication=minor_line?<br>
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> Is there a need to map smaller telephone or utility poles?<br>
><br>
> I don't have any personal interest in mapping this right now (I'm<br>
> still working on rivers, villages and highways in my area!) but it<br>
> seems similar to "power=minor_line" and "power=pole" in significance,<br>
> and I suppose it's better to develop a good tagging system now.<br>
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> While using the key "man_made" would be easiest, perhaps the<br>
> communication key is a good idea, parallel to "power"?<br>
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