[OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

[Andy Mabbett]

On 22 April 2017 at 00:37, Andy Townsend <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21/04/2017 22:56, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>>
>> the Sutton Coldfield (England) TV mast:

 >> http://www.opensntreetmap.org/?mlat=37.08321&mlon=-8.13643#map=17/37.0832/-8.1364

> That's the one in Portugal, I think?
>
> Sutton Coldfield is at:
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6044107

Yes; thank you.

> The current tagging (man_made=tower; tower:type=communication) looks OK to
> me.  An alternative might be to do as per Lichfield
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/1258302194
> (man_made=communications_tower), which the "standard" style also doesn't
> render.

Well, both (and Portugal) should be the same.

> One thing that I had given a bit of thought to was
> to have _very_ tall towers appear at lower zoom levels.  It'd involve doing
> a bit of maths in the lua tag transform script, which is surely possible,
> but not something that I've not looked at at all - and for Sutton Coldfield
> it'd need the height tagging as well.

Added for Sutton (I don't have a source for the one in Portugal).

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Andy Mabbett
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