[Tagging] Masts vs Towers yet again

François Lacombe fl.infosreseaux at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 20:03:40 UTC 2016


Hi Martin,

2016-04-18 19:41 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:
>so for these antenna supports I think I'd use man_made=antenna and maybe some subtag to specify the kind of support if you want to

man_made=antenna should be kept for antennas, not their supports.
There are currently proposals for antennas mapping, which is a
terrible pain without 3D in OSM (but out of the scope of this thread)
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Key:antenna
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Radio_antennas_mapping_proposal.png

Since masts, towers, etc... are common supports and structures, words
like antenna (the device on the support) should not be used even if
the first purpose of those supports is to carry antennas.
If we use "antenna" when antennas are on a mast, we'll have to use
"camera" where there is no antenna but camera on the same type of
mast.

All the best



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