Changeset: 63574620
Power tagging
Closed by Russ
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created_by | JOSM/1.5 (14289 en_GB) |
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Discussion
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Comment from will_p
Hi,
I notice you are adding names to electricity substations across the country. Please could you inform me of the source for these names? When adding names from a source other than survey, it's always helpful to give a source so other mappers can verify what you have added.This query was prompted by me noticing you have changed the ref name for the following substation: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/86751793/history
I walked passed this just last Sunday and the name on the gate definitely read 'Stanton Grid', but you have changed it to 'Stanton Substation'.Thanks,
Will -
Comment from Russ
My sources for names are mostly planning permission/press releases/local news articles, and very occasionally educated guesses. Not many people go out of their way to survey these places.
The "grid" thing is somewhat of a stylistic choice, I guess. "Grid" is the type of substation, rather than the name of it. It appears here that there's another (possibly disused) substation right next door, which I will guess is/was called Stanton Primary. Given that they share a site, the overall site would be Stanton Substation.
Annoyingly for some reason the use of this terminology varies across the UK (in the west of England this would be "Stanton BSP"...) and I have a slight preference towards avoiding the regional jargon when naming things. I am happy to defer to the surveyed ground truth, though.
More of my thoughts about this, and some coverage of the grid/primary terminology, can be found here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Power_networks/Great_Britain
Ways (10)
- 634792259, v1
- AJ (23608041), v12
- Nottingham Substation (23615328), v10
- Toton Substation (30780614), v11
- Sowbrook Lane (48446846), v7
- Stanton Substation (86751793), v9
- HU (93244919), v3
31247200, v593244914, v3105407729, v5
Nodes (11)
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