[Tagging] Masts vs Towers yet again

Dave Swarthout daveswarthout at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 15:07:00 UTC 2016


You want to retag communication towers that are identical in structure to
the power towers on the Wiki page as masts? I would disagree totally with
that idea. A mast does not have legs in common American usage.

Is that your thrust or do you have another term in mind?

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Malcolm Herring <
malcolm.herring at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 15/04/2016 12:39, Dave Swarthout wrote:
>
>> I think you had better make the requirements for tower less strict.
>>
>
> The whole point of my definitions is to *NOT* use the word "tower" for
> communications masts. I am trying to resolve the ambiguity by choosing one
> in preference to the other, even though a given structure may be locally
> known by the other word.
>
>
>
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