I just noticed that the tag man_made=cooling_tower is deprecated. The template says the reason is on the deprecated features list, but actually there is no reasoning there.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dcooling_tower The suggested alternative tagging with man_made=tower is _contradicting_ the tower definition and frankly it doesn't seem reasonable to tag things as different as towers (watchtowers, defensive towers, communication towers, ...) and "large chimneys" / "heatexchangers" with the same main tag. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtower Looking at usage statistics, both variants are growing. There are also other values for tower:type that contradict the man_made=tower definition (or have at least illustrative imagery attached that doesn't fit), namely the values - "siren" (not discussed or voted AFAIK, low usage), - monitoring (very low usage, is also competing with monitoring_station), - communication (what is the difference to "man_made=communication_tower"? The image is not a tower according to OSM definition). - multifunctional (WTF?), lowest imaginable usage - radar - climbing - diving - lightning_protection Why would we want to put all this completely different things into the same main tag, are there good arguments? May I ask for a little bit more of wiki editing discipline? For example the tag tower:type=multifunctional has 6 uses and never had more. I don't recall it being discussed on this list. Why would someone add it there? Cheers, Martin
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