On 14 December 2011 14:11, Nick Austin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The risers I've seen can only be properly identified by close up > inspection, it's generally just a metal half-tube nailed to one side > of the pole through which the cable then passes. Identification of > which poles have risers can only be done by close-up inspection. > > However as far as the UK is concerned most of the rural distribution > network is built on private land so only the land-owner would have the > necessary access rights to be able to map risers on their section of > the overhead line.. > This argoment does only apply to poles (Power=pole). For pylons (tower=power) this is not normally true. With pylons you can clearly see the power lines that go the ground at an angle (often to a transformer or a switch yard). Also I don't think this situation is called "riser" at all. Risers exist only with poles. Volker > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Volker SCHMIDT Via Vecchia 18/ter 35127 Padova Italy mailto:[email protected] office phone: +39-049-829-5977 office fax +39-049-8700718 home phone: +39-049-851519 personal mobile: +39-340-1427105 skype: volker.schmidt
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