> On 21.01.2013 01:54, François Lacombe wrote: >> May someone answers that question > > power=station is used for large, fenced areas where high voltage is > transformed to medium voltage. In German: Umspannwerk > > power=sub_station is used for smaller objects, like buildings with 2m each > side and a height of a few m, where medium voltage is transformed to low > voltage. In German: Trafohäuschen (or Trafostation)
That is a misunderstanding that was unfortunately introduced in the early days of OSM. The creator of the 'station' tag, Bahnpirat, has admitted it was a mistake, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Power_lines#RFC_-_draft. In English as substation is a substation never a 'station'. A 'power station' in English is the same as a power plant! This leads to confusion among mappers resulting in quite a few power plants tagged as 'stations' according to my experience. I have seen a lot of small 'Trafohäuschens' tagged as 'station' (especially in the Netherlands) so the distinction is not that clear to mappers. Using voltage=* to indicate the catagory of substation is much better. > No, it was rejected. It did not get enough votes. The start of voting was never properly announced on this list. Maybe that could explain the few votes. I only discovered the voting by accident. Maybe it should be revived for a new vote? > > Maybe. Spelling errors have been corrected in other cases too (e.g. > type=broad_leafed). We are all aware that that underscore is wrong but it is quite difficult to get rid of it since 'substation' is currently not supported by renderers and editors. 'broad_leafed' was easier as none of the mainstream renderers are rendering it anyway, AFAIK. > This is a consensus among 2 persons at best. This does not legitimate you > to > make vast changes to the Wiki. There should at least be a topic in the > wiki > talk page for some months. Discussions about tagging are supposed to take place here, not on 'talk'. > > And first of all you should contact user "aliponte" who did a lot of work > mapping power networks in central Europe. > >> Do everyone agree with that? > > No, I disagree. > > On 24.01.2013 22:46, Ole Nielsen wrote: >> I have now marked http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dstation >> as >> deprecated, removed 'power=station' from the "power features" template >> meaning it's gone from all language versions of Map Features using the >> template and removed links from a few feature pages. > > This is really bad. Please revert these changes immediately. Otherwise > I'll > do it, but I am afraid that I would miss some of the affected pages. I think you should first justify why 'station' is a correct tag (i.e. a substation and not a power station). Ole _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
