I agree; I spent a few minutes trying to improve the page a bit. However, I don't see much benefit from mapping private household satellite antennas: the dishes in the linked picture above are only 90 cm across, and they are on just about every house.
Maybe there are more useful things to map in Ghana before adding these minor features? On 7/29/19, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Mo., 29. Juli 2019 um 09:36 Uhr schrieb Enock Seth Nyamador < > [email protected]>: > >> *This attribute is not suitable for private house antennas.* >>> >> Apparently this caveat prevented us from using all above tags since we >> want to use it in this regard. See screenshot [1] >> >> 1. https://imgur.com/tyXnMtJ >> >> > > > the man_made=satellite_dish tag is poorly defined anyway, the short > definition speaks about "ground stations": "A ground station is a > terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication > with spacecraf." > > Probably most satellite dishes are set up for communication with > satellites, generally most of them being only receivers. > The whole page should likely be rewritten, as it does not focus on the > feature (satellite dish) but on other features (ground station, radio > telescope, etc.). It isn't clear why this should not be used for private > satellite dishes, and there should probably be some discussion on this list > and improvement of the wiki page. > > Cheers, > Martin > _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
