[talk-au] Project of the Week / Month

Sam Wilson sam at archives.org.au
Fri Nov 5 02:23:33 GMT 2010


On 2010-11-04 10:26 PM, David Murn wrote:
>
> With aerial imagery, its quite possible to accurately tag the exact
> location of the light itself, and even a lot of street lamps have unique
> ref codes which could be tagged also.  Id be quite happy to start
> tagging street lamps if there was an agreed upon tag.
>
> One thought, is that often street lights can share the same pole as
> power lines, so maybe utilising the existing pole/pylon/tower tags could
> be used in some way?
>

Actually, streetlights (at least WA ones) have separate ID numbers to 
the poles they're on.  And they're generally not written on the 
streetlight!  So better off marking the pole its ref=xxx plus something 
to indicate the presence of the streetlight.





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