[Tagging] What's a power=station?
Anthony
osm at inbox.org
Mon Jan 18 17:31:16 GMT 2010
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> wrote:
> OK, this could degenerate into a philosophical discussion,
Yeah, I should have just kept my mouth shut.
> so to keep it slightly on tagging:
>
> Would you tag a reservoir at the head of a hydro-electric dam as a
> reservoir or power?
>
No, I'd probably tag it as natural=water.
Would you describe a gas tank as power or a tank filled with gas?
>
Depends on the context.
In any case, I guess I see what you're getting at. But power is far from
the only tag which is used this way. There are lots of tags that aren't
material objects: man-made, leisure, tourism, military, landuse, natural,
geological... And worse than that, they overlap. If that's what you're
complaining about, okay, but power is far from the only culprit.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:36 AM, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com>wrote:
> The definition that I was taught in school was that matter could be
> converted into energy, and energy could be converted into matter. This is
> not the same thing as saying that matter is energy.
>
Maybe not, but "matter is energy" or maybe "matter is made out of energy" is
probably more technically accurate. But then, that's probably, as Dave
suggested, a philosophical question.
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