[Tagging] power=tower or pole?

[M∡rtin Koppenhoefer]

2010/9/7 Nathan Edgars II <neroute2 at gmail.com>:
> So obviously this is a tower:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electric_transmission_lines.jpg

+1


> and this is a pole (no matter what voltage it carries):
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pyl%C3%B4ne_haute_tension.JPG

-1, poles are solid, the one you show is probably a tube. If you
compare to the images in the wiki:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Minor.jpg
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Pole3.jpg

you will also find that they are smaller.

so this might be a tower as well (see that the definition for tower
includes pylons).

The problem is that tower is not a well adaptable term, pole neither.
The latter is a single, solid cylinder (though refering to the
construction type) while tower is a very generic term refering to a
structure usually taller than wide.


> But what about something like this, where there are several poles with
> crossbars: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electric_power_transmission_-_Ljusdal.JPG

that is 3 poles, and therefore not corresponding to the wiki
definition (single pole). Either you tag it tower or we change the
pole definition, or we add another type of supporting structure.
> Or this, where a single pole is made of metal with diagonals:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stork_nest_on_power_mast.jpg


nice pictures, but I can't see any pole in it.

cheers,
Martin