[Talk-GB] Electricity generator tagging

[Tom Chance]

On 26 May 2011 12:38, Borbus <borbus at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/05/11 11:51, Peter Miller wrote:
> > We have releases a new Electricity generation map using ITO Map ...
> <snip>
>
> That's convenient since I just tagged the gas fired and biomass CHP
> plants at my university the other day. :)
>
> What is the best way to tag wind farms?  Currently one near me has nodes
> for each turbine with power_source=wind on each one.  It seems it would
> be better to have each one as man_made=wind_turbine or something and
> group them together with a relation, since the estimated energy output
> of a wind farm is usually stated as a whole rather than per turbine.


I would simply divide the capacity of the farm by the turbines in that
instance, or mark them all as power=generator with generator:source=wind and
generator:output:electricity=yes and then create a relation with the
generator:output:electricity=x MW info?

Regards,
Tom

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