[Tagging] How to tag a floating solar farm?

[Greg Troxel]

Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> writes:

>> The problem I have is that to draw a landuse=industrial on the water
>> seems is strange, there are no barrier on the ocean to define the
>> area of a floating solar farm.
>
> es .. it does seem strange. Yet it is used for landuse=aquaculture so
> other 'land use' can be applied over water too .. at least that is the
> present situation.

I think landuse=industrial is perfectly ok for water containing solar.


>> But if there is only 1 PV panel osm object in the plant, it's not
>> possible to use power=plant + power=generator on a same object. Is
>> it appropriate to create a relation with only one element?
>
> Err the wiki https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dgenerator
> says ...
>
> small independent generators (such as domestic solar panels),
> especially those generating less than 1 MW, should not be tagged as a
> power plant. This is known as distributed generation.

Sure, but the the OP is talking about 500k panels which is 10 MW if they
are 200W panels, and or course more if more.  Definitely feels like
power=genarator, rather than DG.

FWIW, I'd split power=generator vs DG not strictly on size but on
whether it's just panels on an existing building to integrate, vs
something purpose installed just for power.  There's a site near me
which is probably not a full MW, but it's a lot of panels in a field,
with no associated other buildings or use, and it was put in for the
sole purpose of power generation.   It might be 0.5 MW, or 0.2 MW, but
definitely vastly more than the usual 10 kW class home DG, or even 100
kW DG on a commercial building.
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