[OSM-talk] Should we be mapping transformers and powerlines?

[Allan Mustard]

Obscurity won't stop terrorists, so we might as well map them. It will 
make it easier for law enforcement to find them, too.

As an aside, the last couple of months I noticed somebody in 
Turkmenistan had added a number of "banks" and "bars" in Ashgabat, using 
MAPS.ME, with very strange, un-banklike, un-barlike names. Upon 
investigation I found they were electrical substations. Since MAPS.ME 
has no "substation" node preset, this mapper (possibly and in fact most 
probably an employee of Turkmen Energo) was mapping substations and 
annotating them on his smartphone as "banks" or "bars". I had a merry 
afternoon of cleanup in December and another this month.

cheers,
apm