Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Paul Allen
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Clifford Snow wrote: > > Not sure what the British English equivalent would be to central office. > Telephone Exchange. -- Paul ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Clifford Snow
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 3:50 AM Simon Poole wrote: > > Wasn't there just a longish discussion about this, and that its origin > goes back to marketing language used by Bell?- As a former Bell System employee I can tell you we used the term central office to describe buildings that contained a

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 16. Sep 2018, at 13:57, François Lacombe wrote: > > Building=central_office is less consistent > Building=service is more suitable for me, both would be ok, I definitely would not use building=industrial which is clearly a step back, although it is used quite

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Paul Allen
On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 12:57 PM, François Lacombe < fl.infosrese...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please have a look to RFC > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Telecom_local_loop > > We wish to introduce telecom=* to specify functional role of such > facilities >

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread François Lacombe
Sent from a phone Hi all Please have a look to RFC https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Telecom_local_loop We wish to introduce telecom=* to specify functional role of such facilities Building=central_office is less consistent Building=service is more suitable All the best

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Simon Poole
Am 16.09.2018 um 11:53 schrieb Andy Townsend: > Re "central office", it's not really an English term. Wasn't there just a longish discussion about this, and that its origin goes back to marketing language used by Bell? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Andy Townsend
Re "central office", it's not really an English term.  I'm guessing that it was translated from French - see https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2018-June/037016.html and https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Telecom_local_loop .  The English term that matches

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Warin
Not all of them have no windows. I'd tag it as what it is, building=telephone_exchange. That would be suitable with or without windows. I have added a section on them to https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:WikiProject_Telecoms#Telephone_Exchange You can attempt to contact the original

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Chris Hill
On 16/09/2018 08:48, José G Moya Y. wrote: Hi! Path 374362033 ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374362033 ) is a building with no windows in Calle del Fúcar, 28014 Madrid that contains a phone exchange (originally it was a gigantic relay system for the phones of the area, now probably

Re: [Tagging] Telephone exchange

2018-09-16 Thread Anton Klim
Hi, The telecom tagging scheme (on wiki) definitely had a tag for telephone exchanges. For a building without windows, I’d suggest building=service > 16 сент. 2018 г., в 8:48, José G Moya Y. написал(а): > > Hi! > > Path 374362033 ( https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/374362033 ) is a building