[Tagging] Non-live cables for bracing power lines?

John Willis johnw at mac.com
Mon May 1 23:24:38 UTC 2017


I think you can use pole to map the pole, but if you are trying to map the wire, then you have to have a guy_wire or support_cable created. 

Javbw

> On May 1, 2017, at 9:42 PM, John Sturdy <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I guess this is micro-mapping and probably OK by just about anyone to leave unmapped, but I'm feeling thorough... near where I live, there's a power line running along the edge of a byway, and an apparently non-powered cable leading from the top of one of the poles (http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1465951159) to the top of a pole the other side of the byway, from which a guywire goes down to the ground.  I guess the idea is to avoid having the sloping guywire obstruct the byway.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to tag this?  I'm sure it's not unique, so might be worth documenting, although pretty uncommon.  It's not actually a power line itself, as far as I can tell.
> 
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