On 11/06/18 10:15, Andrew Harvey wrote:
On 11 June 2018 at 08:14, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com
<mailto:graemefi...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 11 June 2018 at 01:52, François Lacombe
<fl.infosrese...@gmail.com <mailto: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.
+1, most of the time that building would have a name like "...
Exchange" and tagged currently as simply man_made=telephone_exchange.
This makes it easy to survey from the outside without working in the
industry to know exactly what's going on inside the building.
Central office is confusing to me as it sounds like it's the head
office of the company, ie. office=telecommunication.
I know these terms are different by country and we need a global tag,
but just letting you know the proposed usage would be very confusing
for Australia.
It may also be confusing in Britain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_telephone_exchanges_in_London
Youtube .. 1970s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Kh5llVpxOk 1min 20secs
In 1976 the last manual telephone exchange in the United Kingdom at
Portree in the Isle of Skye closed.
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