[OSM-newbies] Pipeline wiki

[James Ewen]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:

>>> Can someone see the pipeline wiki:
>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpipeline
>>> and see if all is correct? There are comments that need to clear.

Looks like you're going to need to add a whole lot of tags to that page...

First off, the pipeline should have a size associated with it, it
should have a direction as well, and if you want to get silly, what
about a capacity in BBL per hour? A depth tag would be good as well,
but that is so variable it would be hard to tag.

You'll need things like pigging stations (with pig shooters and pig
catchers), cathodic protection nodes, block valves, pump stations,
compressor stations. River crossings would be interesting... would you
mark a pipeline as being in a tunnel where it runs under a river? 8)

All of this would probably need a specialized map rendering engine, as
most of the world is not interested in the location of pipelines. Most
of the world would probably be amazed at how many pipelines run under
their feet. I work in a field that supports the petrochemical
industry, and I am amazed at the number of times the pipelines I work
along cross other pipelines. It's like a spider's web.

James