On 17 August 2010 15:25, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2010/8/17 André Riedel <[email protected]>: > >> power=generator (the starting point) > > > > Please do not mix the "power"-tag for generating electricity with > > other sources of energy like steam, vacuum, heat and so on. > > why not? Isn't that all power? > > You could be very, very picky here and get into all sorts of semantic problems, not least arguing about different languages, whether to strictly follow the definition in physics, etc. Or you could just keep things simple, accept that what we are talking about here is a range of objects generating useful energy, and extend the existing accepted tagging schema that already includes heat-generating equipment to encompass all of the proposals. If you really want something like "man_made=heat_plant" you are going to get into all sorts of problems with power plants that generate heat, cooling and electricity! Regards, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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