[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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