On 2013-10-13 13:21, SK53 wrote:
This morning I came across a name tag on a power line <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/53.18607/-1.14961>. I believe this is now quite a common practice (> 8% of lines in an 3-month old data-set). Personally I deplore it:* I have never found a convenient sign on a power line giving it's name. * It is not derived from ground-truth. * It is not verifiable by other mappers. * It's tagging for the renderer (which may not work once the rules for "name" have been revised in CartoCSS) * The names appear not to be names, but descriptions, we have a suitable key for this, oddly enough called "description". * Some name tags include "National Grid". we have a perfectly suitable tag called "operator" for this information. * I very much doubt that National Grid use names of this type for sending out line engineers. * Most of these names just appear to describe the two end points of the line. OSM is a geo-database this information can be found by suitable queries. Given that adding non-verifiable names seems to /de rigueur/ I propose that in homage to Edmund Crispin I propose we name a random selection of power=pylon as "The Pisser". More seriously I suggest that these name tags be removed and replaced by suitable use of "operator" and "description".
I think some power lines do have names, mostly the major transmission lines. Yes, this is usually the names of the places they are between. eg the big example in Scotland is the Beauly-Denny power line (not much mapped in OSM yet). This is the official name from SSE / Scottish Power, and it has been widely reported in the news, with a public enquiry etc. And there are some signs on the ground, eg http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2759088 Yes, these signs are probably temporary during construction, so the name will be less obvious when the line is finished. But I think it should be recorded in OSM in some way.
Or other SSE projects, including some power lines with names: http://www.sse.com/WhatWeDo/AssetsAndProjects/ I have seen a few of these signed on the ground, during construction/refurbishment works.
I would agree that things like the operator or voltage shouldn't be tagged as the name, you can use the specific tags for these.
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