Ah, Martin, those are wonderful examples you supplied. I agree with your statement about the first example; that structure is most certainly a mast, not a tower. But the second is more difficult. It exhibits the main characteristics of a mast but it has some sort of accommodation near the top, which might persuade me to tag it as a tower. Very tricky to tag.
Then, as if to add insult to injury, Marc and you add an example where what might be tagged as either mast or tower clearly has another mast on top of it. It's confusing to say the least. On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Marc Zoutendijk <marczoutend...@mac.com> wrote: > > Op 16 apr. 2016, om 08:27 heeft Martin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > > but in these cases there would typically be a room in the tower, i.e. the > pole is there to support something on top, or is big and hollow and > accessible in the inside. > > this is not a tower: > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8e/Borough_Hill_mast.jpg > > this is not a mast: > > https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torre_della_televisione_di_Stoccarda#/media/File:Stuttgarter_Fernsehturm6.jpg > > > I agree with this vision, but in the last case, which we also see very > often in my country (The Netherlands), one still could say that we see a > mast on top of a tower, like this one: > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Gerbrandy_tower.jpg > > Which creates even more confusion. > > A tower is built on the spot where you see it. But a mast is very often > constructed elsewhere and simply erected on the spot where you see it, > although I’m not sure if we can use this in our decision on how to tag. > > Marc. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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