Thank you Martin for this answer, I didn't remember we have started a
Talk thread about this question.
The discussion should go on there (I've already posted an answer)
All the best
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2015-11-16 10:24 GMT+01:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com>:
>
> 2015-11-15 22:36 GMT+01:00 François Lacombe <fl.infosrese...@gmail.com>:
>>
>> As I was translating some wiki pages in French earlier today, I've
>> noticed the plant:source key described on this page
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:power%3Dplant
>>
>> This key hasn't its own page and it may be a good occasion to make a
>> little change.
>> Currently it allows contributors to indicates what is qualitatively
>> fuelling the power plant, separated by ; in case of several values.
>
>
>
> I find this highly misleading. "plant" and "evolution" in the thread title
> can easily evoke different ideas (biology).
> xy:source is often used to indicate the source of an object in OSM
> (metadata, yes, I neither think this is a good idea).
>
> I understand that it is tried to avoid "combustion" or similar wordings
> ("fuel") because they don't apply universally (e.g. solar energy, geothermal
> energy, tidal energy, etc.), but I would recommend to use a different tag,
> like
> energy_source, power_source (i.e, not a colon separated subtag, not
> referring to plant but to energy/power).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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