On 06.05.2014, at 01:07 , Clifford Snow <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if OpenStreetMap would make a good repository for cell tower > locations?
I think that is a great idea. OpenStreetMap is very much about physical / visible things, so the physical towers and antennas fit well into that in my mind. > Communications antennas data is collected and displayed. While > the tagging[1] is limited to just type of tower, it could be expanded to > include more information. For example, power networks data includes > voltage, tower type, number of cables and operator. ITO World has even has > a nice map of the power network. [3] There seems to be some proposed advanced tagging suggestions at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:communication:mobile_phone including things like the full cell ids and even antenna direction. I’m not sure how consistently such advanced tags are applied today, or what process is needed to take them from proposal to standard (and get community members to actually apply them). But I think this sounds like something where OSM might indeed be a better fit. And I like to keep this project limited to the data it actually needs, and not encourage everyone to contribute to OSM in addition if that makes sense. Cheers, Hanno _______________________________________________ dev-geolocation mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-geolocation
