[Tagging] Mapping of VLF antenna lines

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 07:03:43 UTC 2022


The Harold  E Holt Naval Communication Base has been mapped using

power=line for the antenna transmission lines and

man_made=tower, tower:type=communication for the towers.

See https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-21.8177/114.1688


I did start some proposals for antennas .. but most people don't 
understand them ..

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/antenna:use#Values

And then there is the problem of rendering.


On 16/6/22 12:02, Clifford Snow wrote:
> Thanks for everyone's input.
>
> Greg - man_made=guy doesn't work for me because it's not a guy wire, 
> but the actual antenna.
>
> When looking at power=line, the key power is what all of the it's tag 
> describe, from power plants, towers, poles, substations, lines and to 
> many other power features. man_made on the other hand is like a catch 
> all. man_made=antenna should be the right tag since the lines between 
> towers are the actual antenna. Taginfo shows only 576 antennas mapped 
> as ways.
>
> If I was energetic I'd suggest moving communications into its own key. 
> But right now, I need a glass of wine.
>
> Best,
> Clifford
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 3:29 PM stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>     After over a decade of OSM mapping, I have spotted a trend (at
>     least within myself):  wanting to only "whisper" (suggest) maybe a
>     tag, maybe less (as I cautiously do/tag something for the first
>     time in a shared map), I entered a node or a way with simply a
>     note=* tag.  Not even anything "structural" except "there is a way
>     here, I don't know exactly how to enter it."
>
>     THEN, I see a mild tagging tangle with a big VLF array and land on
>     "not exactly that, but what about here? as it's like that..."). 
>     That turns into the sort of good dialog that happens in this map
>     (especially when spot-on or not-very-tangentially-faraway) even
>     over many years.  From a whisper in our map data, to this list
>     upon a question of what we might do (how we might tag).
>
>     And "out of the woodwork" come our members, our Contributors, our
>     volunteer spirit to, what simply is, to speak up (together).
>
>     That's pretty awesome, OSM.  I like it when we plant a whisper in
>     our shared map and it taps us on the shoulder a decade later and
>     people talk, across oceans, continents, dialects. Our tagging gets
>     smarter and better.
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