On 30 June 2017 09:25:48 BST, Jean-Marc Liotier <j...@liotier.org> wrote: >On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:37:52 +0900 >John Willis <jo...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Which landuse is appropriate for power towers? >> >> here is a picture of some of the towers I am talking about. In this >> case, most are in or adjacent to a substation.The giant red-white >> towers in the picture are common in my area, and run across our >> region. they use a large 25mx25m piece of land for their base. I am >> talking about these towers when they are by themselves, in farmland >> or residential areas. >> >> The giant power towers have a mappable (usually fenced) landuse - the >> tower bases are usually near some kind of access road, and the land >> for towers is as large as a housing plot. Farmers do not farm under >> the base, even if there isn’t a fence, making it a separate landuse >> from whatever is around it. >> >> Somewhat related, micromapped solar panel installations [..] > >And mobile network base stations, typically the same sort of fenced >square with a mast or a lattice tower, and a small shelter for network >& power equipement. > Power pylons, towers is an odd word to me as a native English speaker, are not normally fenced so I would not map any specific landuse.
For example where pylons cross farmland the land beneath is still farmland, cattle still graze there. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
