[Tagging] Feature Proposal - Voting - power generator rationalisation

[Tom Chance]

On 8 September 2010 09:34, André Riedel <riedel.andre at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/9/6 Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net>:
> > If you can do so without requiring that mappers happy with
> > generator:method=gasification be forced to instead enter a more
> complicated
> > mixture of tags to describe those precise processes, then I wouldn't
> argue
> > against your proposal. It wouldn't interest me, but it also wouldn't get
> in
> > my way.
>
> We do not need a tag with
>
> generator:method=gasifcation-of-biomass-for-combustion-and-heating-water-to-power-a-steam-turbine.
> All we need is a better categorizing of these values. This could be
> done in the definition table. But you have to define it somewhere.
>
> The same with 'fission'. If you define it as 'heating water to power a
> steam turbine', all other methods could be named with
> 'fission:betavoltaics' or 'fission:mhd'.
>

Great, so add a secondary proposal to further define the kinds of
combustion, fission, fusion, gasification, pyrolosis, etc.



> But all these values of 'generator:method' works only very well for
> these combustion or fission generators. :-( All water based generators
> include their method in its 'generator:source'.
>
>
They aren't included in the generator:source. I have considered them to be
"implied" for my purposes only because I have no knowledge or interest in
the different methods used by wave, tidal, hydroelectric and osmotic
generators. If you do, feel free to add those to the method list. The same
goes for differences in wind and geothermal technologies.

Unlike the current set of tags, this proposal doesn't stop you adding
further detail. It clearly separates the categories of source, output and
method, and would allow further definition of each of those if you really
wanted. For example you could add the different kinds of biomass source, and
the different kinds of gasification.

Regards,
Tom

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