[Tagging] Is the difference between power station and sub station clear?

Martin Vonwald imagic.osm at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 10:57:27 GMT 2013


2013/1/25 Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com>:
> How did you come to the conclusion that power=station is Umspannwerk, and
> power=sub_station is Transformatorenstation? There is no logical reason,
> because power station is a power plant in English.

I'm a german native speaker, but nonetheless +1 . As was already
mentioned a few times: a "power station" is a "power plant", i.e. it
generates power (use power=generator). Size should not influence the
tag (you draw the area), neither should voltage (use the voltage key
for that).

regards,
Martin



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