Message: 6 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:39:54 -0500 From: John Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com> To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools" <tagging@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Masts vs Towers yet again Message-ID: <154273c9f48.2777.8c042f3e6e983dd0f57452e62f7f8...@jfeldredge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
The 808-foot antenna for radio station WSM fits both the tower and mast descriptions we are using. <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSM_(AM)> John, read Marcs remarks as well, the WSM antenne is clearly a mast standing on one point, for mechanical reasons and yes it has a foundation on the ground as well. The Gebrandytower is a tower at first (106m), gets a mast (hollow) on top, lift inside to a higher socalled reportersroom and even higher to almost 376 m to a digital antenne. But the structure is still a tower. We dont call a motorvehicle with a bicycle on top a bicycle, well ? >> Op 16 apr. 2016, om 08:27 heeft Martin Koppenhoefer >> <dieterdre...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: >> >> but in these cases there would typically be a room in the tower, i.e. the >> pole is there to support something on top, or is big and hollow and >> accessible in the inside. >> >> this is not a tower: >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Borough_Hill_mast.jpg >> <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Borough_Hill_mast.jpg> >> >> this is not a mast: >> https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_della_televisione_di_Stoccarda#/media/File:Stuttgarter_Fernsehturm6.jpg >> <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_della_televisione_di_Stoccarda#/media/File:Stuttgarter_Fernsehturm6.jpg> > > I agree with this vision, but in the last case, which we also see very > often in my country (The Netherlands), one still could say that we see a > mast on top of a tower, like this one: > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gerbrandy_tower.jpg > <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gerbrandy_tower.jpg> > > Which creates even more confusion. > > A tower is built on the spot where you see it. But a mast is very often > constructed elsewhere and simply erected on the spot where you see it, > although I’m not sure if we can use this in our decision on how to tag. > Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging ------------------------------ End of Tagging Digest, Vol 79, Issue 26 *************************************** _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging