[Tagging] Wind turbines: big and small

Yves yvecai at gmail.com
Mon Oct 7 19:55:53 UTC 2013


This ele / height discussion might show we need a simple tagging scheme to distinguish wind turbines that can be seen as a landmark.
Yves


"Janko Mihelić" <janjko at gmail.com> a écrit :
>Dana ponedjeljak, 7. listopada 2013., korisnik John F. Eldredge<
>john at jfeldredge.com> je napisao:
>>
>> As far as I know, we don't have a standard method for tagging the
>height
>of an object mounted on top of another object, as distinct from the
>combined heights of the objects above ground, or the elevation above
>sea
>level of the base of the object.  There are likely to be other cases,
>in
>addition to wind turbines, where this distinction would be useful.
>>
>
>I think we have a method.
>
>Say we have a 20 meter building with a 3 meter wind turbine on the
>roof.
>You would have an area tagged with building=yes + height=20 and a node
>tagged with power=generator + generator:source=wind + height=23 +
>min_height=20.
>
>It's a question if a power=generator represents the whole tower or just
>the
>generator. I would maybe add a man_made=tower to all wind turbines to
>remove any doubt.
>
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