En/na James Ewen ha escrit: > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Xan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>>> Can someone see the pipeline wiki: >>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dpipeline >>>> and see if all is correct? There are comments that need to clear. >>>> > > Looks like you're going to need to add a whole lot of tags to that page... > > First off, the pipeline should have a size associated with it, it > should have a direction as well, and if you want to get silly, what > about a capacity in BBL per hour? A depth tag would be good as well, > but that is so variable it would be hard to tag. > > You'll need things like pigging stations (with pig shooters and pig > catchers), cathodic protection nodes, block valves, pump stations, > compressor stations. River crossings would be interesting... would you > mark a pipeline as being in a tunnel where it runs under a river? 8) > > All of this would probably need a specialized map rendering engine, as > most of the world is not interested in the location of pipelines. Most > of the world would probably be amazed at how many pipelines run under > their feet. I work in a field that supports the petrochemical > industry, and I am amazed at the number of times the pipelines I work > along cross other pipelines. It's like a spider's web. > > James > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > I thought about more mundane (practical) world: the visible ends and starts of the underground pipelines and, in the case of visible pipelines, the whole pipeline.
The witdh is useful, I think. Xan. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies

