I'm also using landuse=industrial for towers, substations and all the related gear despite being in a rural area.
2017-06-30 4:37 GMT+01:00 John Willis <jo...@mac.com>: > Which landuse is appropriate for power towers? > > http://www.tepco.co.jp/pg/electricity-supply/operation/ > images/img_substation_04.jpg > > here is a picture of some of the towers I am talking about. In this case, > most are in or adjacent to a substation.The giant red-white towers in the > picture are common in my area, and run across our region. they use a large > 25mx25m piece of land for their base. I am talking about these towers when > they are by themselves, in farmland or residential areas. > > The giant power towers have a mappable (usually fenced) landuse - the > tower bases are usually near some kind of access road, and the land for > towers is as large as a housing plot. Farmers do not farm under the base, > even if there isn’t a fence, making it a separate landuse from whatever is > around it. > > Somewhat related, micromapped solar panel installations: the panels > themselves are the power generators, but it seems wrong to tag the landuse > of a field of solar panels as a “power plant” - as solar panels (and wind > farms) are very distributed and could be mixed land use, and are passive - > they don’t seem to be “power stations” in the way that coal, oil, nuclear, > or even solar-thermal stations are), and although I have been usng > landuse=industrial, it seems to not fit really well. Perhaps that is an > incorrect choice, but I don’t know what to use. > > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/504120713 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/503938829 > https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/504121156 > > Similar to landuse=highway and landuse=railway, there are landuse values > for the areas used by part of a system - but not an important or active > part of the system, like the train tracks between stations. > > Is there a landuse=power? there are currently 9 landuse=power uses in OSM. > the one in Japan is surely a mis-tag. But maybe landuse=power as a > catch-all for land used by passive generation and transmission is a good > idea. > > advice? > > Javbw > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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