Hi, I think we missed a pretty important point on power proposals so far : power isn't an electric power matter only. OSM takes care of pipelines too, especially for oil & gas transport.
Like in electrical power networks, we can encounter substations for gas compression or oil distribution. Since the goal of the whole project is to map power networks, we should identify which kind of power are concerned. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks According to wiki : - electricity - gas - oil so far... what else ? The project page deals with gas=station, gas=sub_station... a well known spelling dilemma. Can we call gas distribution facilities "substations" ? I'm willing mapping gas substations with power=substation + barrier=fence *and immediately wonder how to distinguish an electrical substation from a gas substation*. Since power isn't dedicated to electricity, using power=* for electricity and gas=* for gas isn't consistent. Not a lot of work would be needed to extend new substation model to gas since we already have a "well described" pipeline=* tag. How do you feel ? *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu http://www.infos-reseaux.com
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