[OSM-talk] Tagging and rendering of television masts

Oleksiy Muzalyev oleksiy.muzalyev at bluewin.ch
Sun Apr 23 09:11:25 UTC 2017


Both "man_made=tower;tower:type=communications" and "man_made=mast" are 
being used interchangeably. One of them is rendered with a good icon and 
another not rendered at all on the OSM map.
I was not suggesting to re-tag this particular communication mast per 
se, but to attract an attention to this phenomenon.

Best regards,
Oleksiy

On 23.04.17 11:41, Andy Townsend wrote:
> On 22/04/2017 07:33, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote:
>>
>> It is possible to map it as: "man_made=mast", "height=190", etc., 
>> then it will be rendered.
>
> In the general case, please don't suggest that people mistag things 
> just so that one particular renderer (one that probably isn't used by 
> the majority of people that consume OSM data*) renders it.
>
> However in this particular case I can't claim to be familiar enough 
> with it to say whether 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtower or 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dmast is more 
> appropropriate, or indeed whether those wiki pages reflect OSM usage.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> * I'm guessing the "most views" accolade goes to either Mapbox Streets 
> or MAPS.ME these days.
>
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