Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com
In UK English, the word aerial is used instead of antenna.
IMO aerial is more the thing on a small device or the receiving antenna on a
house roof.
I have the impression, not well substantiated, that what I would call a
tower in the US is often called a mast in
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:12 AM, John Sturdy jcg.stu...@gmail.com wrote:
+1 --- for me (UK English), tower implies brickwork or stone.
Not always :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower
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2013/2/7 Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com:
On 06/02/2013 20:59, fly wrote:
What we call man_made=mast is still a tower and man_made=antenna should be
mast,
where as antennas are only the transmitter/receiver.
To this British English speaker:
Tower == any self-supporting structure,
I think that a tower has some means, such as stairs to climb it, so that covers
things like the eiffel tower, I would also include a fire station tower in
this, many are steel girder structures, but have stairs.
Phil
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On 07/02/2013 10:56 ael wrote:
On Wed, Feb 06,
On 07/02/2013 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
but: there are antennas where the whole structure acts as antenna
(mast=antenna). Maybe this is an example:
Yes, but unless you can explain, unambiguously how you identify those
vs. other types of mask, you're going to hit a verifiability problem.
2013/2/7 Jonathan Bennett jonobenn...@gmail.com:
On 07/02/2013 11:33, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
but: there are antennas where the whole structure acts as antenna
(mast=antenna). Maybe this is an example:
Yes, but unless you can explain, unambiguously how you identify those
vs. other types
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 06:47:48PM +0100, Konfrare Albert wrote:
Hello,
Some people has suggested me to include a gradient for the key
obstacle=vegetationhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Obstacle#Values_for_key_obstacle.3D.2A
[..]
One suggestion was something like
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Konfrare Albert
lakonfrariadelav...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Some people has suggested me to include a gradient for the key
obstacle=vegetation.
One suggestion was something like vegetation=light|medium|dense.
I think we don't need so much detail about the
