On 11 June 2018 at 01:52, François Lacombe <fl.infosrese...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A telephone exchange is a particular device inside a central office. > We look forward to map places, not devices for now. > > People used to put man_made=telephone_exchange or man_made=MDF to tag a > building/place while it's only particular devices inside. > Thanks for that, but I'm afraid that the continual OSM worldwide translation problem is raising it's ugly head yet again. In Australia at least, "telephone exchange" refers to the building itself, which houses the Main Frame (where all the cables are terminated) & the various types of switching equipment. In 20 years of working for our Telecom, I never heard the phrase "Central Office" - the closest thing that would refer to is an Admin Office of some sort. Thanks Graeme
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