[OSM-talk] Proposal 'man_made:tower' and 'communications_transpoder'

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,
With a mighty mouse-click, we can import 30,000 tower=smooth tags :@)
-but of course we wont. (OK, bad joke)

What i can do is edit the big Google Docs chart to list the hyperlinks
to the wiki; or rather, go through the wiki/charts and make pages for
each tags that are (will be) in use.
For this one, all the tags which are currently being rendered in
mapnik;osmarender;cyclemap, can have the status 'in use'.

We can argue all day long about the value of having more wiki pages.

I'll argue that ALL canvec tags which are to be used with canvec2osm,
should have a wiki page.
Perhaps on the talk page, there can be a link 'this tag is used in the
canvec import', so people know that a change here, can be a nation
wide tag change.

Thanks Simon, i have a few things todo then i'll make it BETA 0.9 ill
make more stub pages then i'll join in the fun.


On 7/13/09, Simon Wood <simon at mungewell.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:53:11 +0100
> Chris Hill <chillly809 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> During the discussions I and other pointed out that man_made=mast is
>> already used, but the "process" continued.
>
> Please don't take this as anything detremental against Chris or his
> suggestions.... 'man_made=mast' and 'man_made=tower' are both in use,
> neither is clearly defined on the wiki and therefore open to
> mis-interpretation and confusion.
>
> By raising the 'man_made=tower' + 'tower:type=xxx' I am hoping to
> clarify the recommended way to tag these objects and hopefully make it
> easier for new mappers and rendering engines to place them on maps.
>
> Since neither tag was written up in the wiki, I have 'placed a stick in
> the sand' with some suggestions on how to tag towers (communications/
> observation, possibly more types in the future).
>
> My main motivation is to sort the 'undocumented mess' out before I add
> around 3000nodes from a database.
>
> One great thing about crowd-sourcing _IS_ that the best solution wins
> out, if that is 'man_made=mast' then great. But OpenSource and
> crowdsourcing should also not be scared of fixing things can be done
> better.
>
> So lets come up with a prososal (which I have), vote and act on that.
> Simon.
>
> PS. What else do you guys expect of me, to write up a contrary wiki
> page for the 'man_made=mast' tag and force a vote of that too????
>
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