[Tagging] plant:source evolution

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2015-11-15 22:36 GMT+01:00 François Lacombe <fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com>:

> As I was translating some wiki pages in French earlier today, I've
> noticed the plant:source key described on this page
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dplant
>
> This key hasn't its own page and it may be a good occasion to make a
> little change.
> Currently it allows contributors to indicates what is qualitatively
> fuelling the power plant, separated by ; in case of several values.
>


I find this highly misleading. "plant" and "evolution" in the thread title
can easily evoke different ideas (biology).
xy:source is often used to indicate the source of an object in OSM
(metadata, yes, I neither think this is a good idea).

I understand that it is tried to avoid "combustion" or similar wordings
("fuel") because they don't apply universally (e.g. solar energy,
geothermal energy, tidal energy, etc.), but I would recommend to use a
different tag, like
energy_source, power_source (i.e, not a colon separated subtag, not
referring to plant but to energy/power).

Cheers,
Martin
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