Wow, what a nightmare! Here, if a camping ground / caravan park has power to a site, it will be a standard layout Oz plug, but rated at 15A, not 10, so you will need a 15A lead to connect to it, but that's it!
Thanks Graeme On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 10:27, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 23:56, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 04:53, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Having power_supply=yes indicates that the socket type is unknown, >>> >> >> But wouldn't that default as the country you're in? If you're in Britain, >> it's a British socket, so you need a "British" plug (or an International >> adaptor!) to plug in, in Australia an Oz socket & so on. >> > > It's not that simple. Indoors in the UK it's a BS1363 socket. Outdoors > on a camp site it will most > likely be a CEE 17 blue single-phase. But it's possible you might get CEE > 17 red three-phase > in some situations. I've a vague memory there are other connectors used > in marine applications. > Also, although BS1363 connectors are for indoor usage, it's possible to > get weatherproof > housings for external use. So even in just the UK, if a camp site says > power hook-ups are > available you can't be sure what connector is used. Most likely CEE 17 > blue, but maybe not. > > Things get worse in Germany and France, as far as the indoor connectors > go. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#CEE_7_standard > and try to guess what you might get in either country. I expect they also > have weatherproof > housings for external use. > > Hence power_supply=yes means there is a hook-up but the mapper doesn't > know what it is. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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