Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-22 Thread Marc Zoutendijk
Op 15 jul. 2015, om 14:15 heeft Dave Stanley da...@dbsconsult.co.uk het volgende geschreven: As for the antennas mounted on a mast/tower, you then may need to consider the frequencies and operators that use the antennas. In some cases there will be multiple frequencies and operators.

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-16 Thread Eric Christensen
On Wednesday, July 15, 2015 01:27:40 PM Suzan Reed wrote: May I suggest contacting the American Radio Relay League, ARRL? With all the technically knowledgable people in the organization, and their interest in humanitarian readiness (ARES) they are sure to have information useful to map

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-16 Thread Dave Stanley
On 15/07/2015 17:16, François Lacombe wrote: Thank you Dave, 2015-07-15 14:15 GMT+02:00 Dave Stanley da...@dbsconsult.co.uk mailto:da...@dbsconsult.co.uk: Hi I map quite few radio sites in connection with my work. Usually it is just mast/tower locations using the

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-15 Thread Dave Stanley
Hi I map quite few radio sites in connection with my work. Usually it is just mast/tower locations using the 'man_made=tower + tower:type=communication' tags with name/operator information. There are quite few things for these towers that could be improved. For example the difference

[OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-15 Thread François Lacombe
Hi, I just wanted to share some thoughts about antennas and radio supports mapping on this list. There are currently several tags in use to map telecommunication or radio broadcast supports : man_made=tower + tower:type=communication man_made=telecommunication_tower and so on... but this won't

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-15 Thread Marc Zoutendijk
Hi, Regarding the tagging of communication towers, you should probably also read this discussion: https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1366#issuecomment-81632042 https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/pull/1366#issuecomment-81632042 because in a proposal to

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-15 Thread Suzan Reed
May I suggest contacting the American Radio Relay League, ARRL? With all the technically knowledgable people in the organization, and their interest in humanitarian readiness (ARES) they are sure to have information useful to map antennas. The American Radio Relay League is the largest

Re: [OSM-talk] Antennas and radio networks supports mapping

2015-07-15 Thread François Lacombe
Thank you Dave, 2015-07-15 14:15 GMT+02:00 Dave Stanley da...@dbsconsult.co.uk: Hi I map quite few radio sites in connection with my work. Usually it is just mast/tower locations using the 'man_made=tower + tower:type=communication' tags with name/operator information. There are quite