Bryce Nesbitt <[email protected]> wrote: > To see how it feels, I've started to tag my local area with: > > utilities=underground > > > In areas where I know that all overhead wires have been undergrounded. > A > complete tag list might be: > > utilities=underground ( no overhead utilities are present ) > utilities=overhead (overhead wires are visible) > utilities=none (it is known that utilities don't run in this > corridor, > even underground) > > > But I will assume a default of utilities=overhead in this region. > > ------------------------------- > This makes a base assumption that our road centerlines represent a > "corridor", which > has various attributes (lanes, sidewalks, utilities). Later > refinements > can add detail of course > and split out elements. > > It maps the visible part of our world (the wires), without intending > to map > the power network. > > And it uses common terms (e.g. undergrounding) even though they are > not > precise. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
You might also want to have utilities=underground_and_overhead as a possible value, to handle cases where some utility cables, but not all, have been placed underground. Or, would this be handled by having two separate utility tags? -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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