[OSM-newbies] Pipeline wiki

[Xan]

En/na James Ewen ha escrit:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Xan <dxpublica at telefonica.net> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
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>
> 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
>
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I thought about more mundane (practical) world: the visible ends and 
starts of the underground pipelines and, in the case of visible 
pipelines, the whole pipeline.

The witdh is useful, I think.

Xan.