Key:power

This key is used to identify a wide range of facilities and features that relate to the generation and distribution of electrical power including power lines, power generation, pylons and sub-stations.

• Power generation gives more details to map power generation means.
• Power networks gives more details about mapping electricity paths.

Values

For mapping electrical power plants, substations lines and associated infrastructure.

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Lifecycle

The use of lifecycle prefixes is encouraged for power infrastructure.

Construction

If an object is under construction, it should be tagged with the construction:power=* key, for example construction:power=line. It's not recommended to add power objects to OpenStreetMap until construction has started on the ground, because plans do change. If you do add pre-construction objects, they should be tagged with planned:power=*.

Open Infrastructure Map shows objects tagged with construction:power=* and renders them differently.

Disused & demolished objects

Disused objects should be tagged based on their appearance:

• Disused plants, substations, and similar facilities should be tagged with disused:power=*, along with an appropriate landuse tag such as landuse=brownfield.
• Disused power lines should be tagged with disused=yes, as they are still visibly power lines and should be rendered as such on general-use maps. (See Tag:power=line#Lifecycle for more info.)

Demolished objects should be tagged with the demolished:power=* tag while they are still visible on major aerial imagery layers. Once gone from aerial imagery, they should be deleted.

Proposals

Here are the primary proposals that lead to current tagging model:

•  Proposed features/Power generation refinement
•  Proposed features/Substation refinement
•  Proposed features/Power switching extension
•  Proposed features/Transformer extension proposal
•  Proposed features/Transformers classification refinement
• Proposed features/Substation nodes extension
•  Proposed features/Power routing proposal

Rendering

OpenInfraMap renders electricity, telecommunications, water, petroleum, and microwave communications infrastructure, also features a similar rendering of power lines in one of its overlays, Names of substations and their highest voltage, and power plants are also indicated.

OSM power networks on Open Infrastructure Map

Another visualization can be seen at Flosm.de.

Possible tagging mistakes

power=yes

More details at taginfo

More details at taginfo

• power=yes

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

Quality control

• Quality control with Osmose

See also

• man_made=utility_pole - A single pole supporting elevation of any of various and unspecified public utilities, such as power transmission, lighting or telephony
• electricity=* - To indicate the source of electricity used in a building, a dwelling or a settlement

External links

• Open Infrastructure Map