@Martin, I'm not sure of the meaning of your question. I am aware of the use of man_made=water_tower for example and think it might be better to use the top level tag man_made=tower followed by: tower:type=water_storage (or water_tower)
But it seems the two methods are already in use, namely, using tower:type for some types of towers while others have a dedicated main tag like the water_tower example. Is that what you're referring to? On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 4:35 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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