Re: “anyone who needs to map the International Protection rating of electrical enclosures will have to come up with a different tag”
+1 No need to worry about this. Joseph On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 7:21 AM Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 22:50, François Lacombe <fl.infosrese...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Le mer. 28 août 2019 à 19:09, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> a écrit : >> >>> >>> Nope, Ingress Protection. It's an international standard, though. >>> >> Thats a detail, official document stands for International Protection >> https://texa-co.ir/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/IEC-60529.pdf (see §4 page >> 18) >> > > You're right. I've only ever encountered "IP" expanded as Ingress > Protection, which makes > sense. Now I've done some digging, I found the Wikipedia talk page where > they suspect > the authors of the standard made an error. One commenter pointed out that > "International > Protection" would be about preventing warfare. Another commenter said > that when he > worked on translating a standard he encountered many errors. Even so, the > official > document covering testing of enclosures for the degree of protection they > offer to the > ingress of liquids and particulates says, as an aside, that IP stands for > "International > Protection" and not the "Ingress Protection" that would make more sense. > > If we can avoid confusion, we should. I'm not sure that this does. >>> >> It requires at least a strong context to not be confused with any other >> protection classification system. >> > > To be honest, I'd not expect a national park to be protected from liquid > or particulate ingress, > nor an electrical enclosure to impose restrictions on building houses > within it. Nor do I expect > even micro-mappers to document the IP rating of electrical enclosures they > map. The only > thing we really need to worry about is namespace collision, and that's > usually dealt with by > a first-come/first-served approach. > > Let's see if Kevin wishes to take care of this >> > > If he can, that would be good. If he can't, then anyone who needs to map > the International > Protection rating of electrical enclosures will have to come up with a > different tag. :) > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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