[Tagging] power=tower or pole?

Nathan Edgars II neroute2 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 18:27:52 BST 2010


On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at earthlink.net> wrote:
> tower_type=a_frame :
> http://sites.google.com/site/am909geo/osm-1/power_a_frame.jpg Usually seen
> as the input and output interfaces of a substation. The example shows two of
> them at right angles to each other. They are made of two identical A-shaped
> structures with a single pole across the apex of them, similar to a
> sawhorse. The insulators are spaced evenly across that pole between the
> A-shaped sides. Additional structures are added sideways to accommodate more
> circuits.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Power_lines_in_OSM#inside_power_stations
appears to call these switches. I've been tagging each node where a
line ends in a substation as power=transformer, since I don't map the
individual parts of a substation, and the transformer is the most
important part.



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