> 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? I agree with you but in our case for the fact that this a slum. We thought this will serve a purpose. Yes many more useful things will be mapped soon :). Not 90cm across dishes into OSM this time. Thanks for comments. Le lun. 29 juil. 2019 à 10:18, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> a écrit : > 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 > -- Best, -Enock
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