Proposal:Quickly Marking Utility Wires
| Utility Wires | |
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| Proposal status: | Abandoned (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | brycenesbitt |
| Tagging: | utility_wires={overhead,underground} |
| Applies to: | type |
| Definition: | Marking of utility wires for a given street or way. |
| Statistics: |
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| Draft started: | 2015-03-11 |
| RFC start: | 2015-03-17 |
 utility_wires
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| Description |
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Fast tagging for areas or roads: are there overhead wires or not? 
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| Used on these elements |
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| Status: proposed |
| Tools for this tag |
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This proposal covers a way to mark that a given areas has underground electric and communication wires. Areas of underground utilities are of interest in earthquake or fire hazard zones, to prospective home-buyers, and for generalized 3D renderings. The most specific tag is used: large areas can be tagged with the prevalent style, and individual streets annotated differently.
Tagging
| Tagging | Description |
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| utility_wires=underground | Wires are known to run below this street in conduit. Street lights may be present, but wires do run between street light poles. |
| utility_wires=overhead | Wires are visibly strung from pole to pole on this street. |
| utility_wires=unknown | This tag may simply be omitted to indicate unknown. |
| utility_wires=none | Area is not served by electric or communication wires. |
| utility_wires:count=count | Approximate count of wires visible overhead. Count all visible wires regardless of their purpose. |
Examples
An entire city, unable to afford underground electrics:
- boundary=administrative (Relation:boundary)
- name=City of Low Income
- utility_wires=overhead
Which has one central street without wires:
- highway=trunk
- name=Main Street
- utility_wires=underground
An example tagged street is http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/6400775, within an urban area where all but a few alleys and key corridors have overhead utilities.
Retagging
Not applicable for this proposal.
Downsides
A significant downside of this proposal is the potential for duplicate data. If a corridor is marked "underground", but later someone maps the actual underground electric lines, there's a potential for the data to get out of synchronization.
This tagging exists in parallel with the drawing of individual power poles and distribution lines: and nothing stops a user from drawing each individual wire network. However, this tag can get the job done over large areas very quickly.
Comments
- Should this be extended to include street light information? Brycenesbitt (talk) 19:44, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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