Talk:Australian Tagging Guidelines
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Clean Up
This page has been archived as part of the Australian wiki cleanup. Diacritic (talk)
Tagging towns by relative importance, not just population size
Have recently had short discussions on this topic on both the Forum: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/tagging-towns-by-importance-not-population-size/103882 & Discord: https://discord.com/channels/413070382636072960/471231032645910529/1156228595124023438.
As mentioned on the Forum, I'd like to look at modifying our guidelines (& also the main wiki) by adding something like:
"When tagging population centres in sparsely inhabited areas, in addition to taking the number of residents into account, each towns relative importance to that area could also be considered e.g a village with only 200 people, but with e.g. a service station, store or pub etc, and with no other comparable population centres close by, could be tagged as a town. Similarly, an isolated bigger town (e.g. 5000 people, but with doctors / a hospital, a secondary school, larger shopping area etc) could be a city".
Possible criteria to look at / work on, so if they have at least one of these, they could move up:
Hamlet > village: primary school / operating railway station / possibly church?
Village > town: general (food) store / service station / pub / one of police - fire - ambos / possibly cafe or takeaway?
Town > city: doctor or hospital / secondary school / large shopping centre or area
All thoughts or comments welcome!
Will also post on the AU list. --Fizzie41 (talk) 04:16, 27 September 2023 (UTC)
Utilities and infrastructure: Telstra Pillars
Hello, to me, depicted Telstra pillars in the Utilities and infrastructure sub page relates more to telecom=distribution_point than telecom=connection_point. Aren't they the box that allow subscribers to be connected to the network? Fanfouer (talk) 08:11, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- telecom=distribution_point is meant to cover up to 15 connections, not the larger number in a single pillar/cabinet. --Fortera (talk) 08:16, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- Also it seems these aren't even operated by Telstra anymore, https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/media-technology-communications/internet/competition-broadband/telstras-separation-framework ? Aharvey (talk) 08:58, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- It's more illustrative than a fixed constraint. How many connection do those pillars allow? Do they have a patch panel? Fanfouer (talk) 09:01, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- From hundreds, up to thousands. https://nickvsnetworking.com/the-role-of-the-humble-telecom-pillar-cabinet-in-the-australian-copper-network/ has some good images of them. --Fortera (talk) 09:08, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- Okay, thank you for useful explanation. I confirm it's telecom=connection_point, with connection_point=primary if they're directly fed by exchange or connection_point=secondary if they're behind a cabinet. Fanfouer (talk) 21:57, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- From hundreds, up to thousands. https://nickvsnetworking.com/the-role-of-the-humble-telecom-pillar-cabinet-in-the-australian-copper-network/ has some good images of them. --Fortera (talk) 09:08, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- It's more illustrative than a fixed constraint. How many connection do those pillars allow? Do they have a patch panel? Fanfouer (talk) 09:01, 3 March 2025 (UTC)