Thank for those details Philip. How would you call things like that ? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:French_gas_delivery_point.jpg
I would looking for the most general term to add it to man_made and then qualify its nature with a second tag like street_cabinet=* Thirdly, domain-specific tags would do the trick to eventually give details about what is hosted in the cabinet For electricity, we do have power=cable_distribution_cabinet but IMHO it's definitely to specific. It would be replaced by man_made=street_cabinet + street_cabinet=power_distribution (+ operator=* + ref=* if applicable) And obviously there are traffic control, road lights and all other public facilities. In France, we have kind of postal boxes where a postal service employee deposits letters as for allowing a second person to distribute them later. https://www.google.fr/maps/preview/@48.127418,-1.640277,3a,19y,262.9h,69.34t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s7fn6hRmeXM84TL5rvHcjbg!2e0 *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu http://www.infos-reseaux.com 2014-02-09 23:08 GMT+01:00 Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk>: > On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 11:42 -0700, Murry McEntire wrote: > > "Street cabinet" has no meaning in my region. Looking at > > manufacturer's sites and google images, I do see the term in use in > > Britain (and some other places) for above ground enclosures with > > vertical hinged doors. Did you also mean to include above ground > > enclosures without hinged doors and subsurface enclosures with a > > surface door? In the U.S. all types are probably most commonly known > > as utility boxes. Utility box has other meanings, so is ambiguous, but > > on a map would likely be interpreted correctly > > > > Perhaps someone could chime in with the British term covering all the > > variations? > > In the UK a cabinet is used primarily for telecoms cabinets. They are > quite common, although less common there are gas cabinets. I am not > aware of water or electricity having them. > > In terms of telecoms, the cabinet is where the cable carrying multiple > subscriber lines is split to provide individual lines to each house. > > The word has become more common since the roleout of fibre started. The > term commonly used is FTTC (Fibre to the cabinet). In terms of telecoms, > a cabinet does not have to be above ground, it can be accessed with > removable covers and be below ground. > > The term cabinet just mean a small cupboard, it is also commonly used > for things in the house such as a 'bathroom cabinet'. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 10:31 AM, François Lacombe > > <francois.laco...@telecom-bretagne.eu> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > I was pretty frustrated to don't encounter any common tag to > > map street cabinets (trafic lights control, water metering, > > phone connection points...) in my city. > > > > > > I was looking for something like man_made=street_cabinet or > > whatever but it's not widely used in the DB. > > > > > > Should I propose this new value on wiki (with additional tags > > to specify what kind of street cabinet, obviously) ? > > > > > > It would be interesting to document street cabinets since many > > of them dangerously deal with pavement accessibility in urban > > zones. > > > > This would be done to prevent specific primary keys about a > > particular infrastructure to appear on the map. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any feedback. > > > > Cheers. > > > > > > François Lacombe > > > > francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu > > http://www.infos-reseaux.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > talk mailing list > > talk@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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