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

[John Smith]

--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Sam Vekemans <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:

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

Jokes aside that isn't actually far fetched since the ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) has a big database of this information available, although I'm not sure of the license on the data and I don't really want to be the one responsible for importing it either for that matter.

>From memory their system exports to CSV format with the frequency, the lat/lon maybe alt and elevation information too.

The important bit is this, not all of these will be free standing GSM type base stations, some will be base stations installed on buildings/power poles, others are installed on water towers. Now that I think about the specifics of GSM antenna installations, it just re-enforces my thoughts that this should really be man_made=tower, tower:type= ...