2013/1/29 Ole Nielsen <on-...@xs4all.nl> > Thanks for making the contact with him.
You're welcome and I've contacted don-vip too. He's the power generation refinement proposal author and maybe he would accept to re-vote it. > He is bringing up some valid points (not that I agree to all of them). We > have the line vs minor_line distinction which is also somewhat arbitrary > and the related tower vs pole problem. These were all introduced in the > early days of osm without providing some rigid guidelines on how to > distinguish them (the result occasionally being some strange tagging). > However, one difference to the station/substation discussion is that these > tags are not "incorrect" in that they refer to correct English terms. Also > trying to change minor_line or pole would be difficult since those values > have been used literally hundreds of thousands of times. (personally I tag > anything below 50 kV as minor_line/pole). > I agree with you, all stuff below 50 kV is dedicated to local distribution in many coutries. It's difficult to be completly consistent with all that differences. > And of course there is the line vs cable discussion but that is in a > different thread. > Could we merge the two proposals power transmission and power generation refinement and improve the whole model? power line vs cable is still as important as substations' discussion and need a definitive answer too. > > My pragmatic suggestion on station vs substation is to keep the > deprecation of station, advice mappers to use substation and add a voltage > tag when possible. Data consumers may treat any substation without a > voltage tag as "small". In time the larger substations will probably be > visited by interested mappers who can add voltage tags etc (380 kV lines > connecting to "small" substations should attract attention). Data consumers > should continue to support 'station' for the time being until the use of > the tag is clearly declining. One thing: Don't perform any mass retagging > of 'station'! > +1 again. -- *François Lacombe* francois dot lacombe At telecom-bretagne dot eu http://www.infos-reseaux.com
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