Tag:power=sub_station

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+/- power=sub_station Description Power substation Used on these elements Useful combination Key:operator Key:frequency Key:voltage Key:name Status Approved Tools for this tag Combinations worldwide in Australia/Oceania in Europe (list) in Asia (list) in Central America (list) in South America (list) in Africa (list)  (via overpass turbo - help)

A substation is a used to step-up or step-down the voltage=* within a electrical power grid and generally linked to the rest of the network by one of more sets of power=lines and which may contains one or more power=transformers. This tag should not be used for facilities where electrical power is produced, for which power=generator tag should be used. See wikipedia article for more information.

The power=station is now deprecated for those facility.

How to Map

Nodes can be used for small substations. Areas are better for larger ones using aerial photography to identify their extent. Substations can vary in size from small little buildings the size of a garden shed to much larger installations to size of many football fields.

Associated tags:

• name=* The name of the facility
• operator=* The name of the company operating the substation.
• voltage=* The highest voltage of operation within the facility

Map representation

• area: This is an industrial type area, so something that ties win with the colour for industrial landuse, but darker area
• node: Some sort of symbol that prompts thoughts of electricity. A lightning flash, maybe?

Examples

Picture/Description	Tags	Mapnik	Osmarender
An outside substation.	power=sub_station operator=Stahlwerke Bremen

The tag is used for transformer-stations or houses like [1] or [2] In England it is mainly used for bigger stations like [3] or [4] (This is the awareness of an international discussion in the osm irc-channel.)

There are Kosmos rendering rules for this theme.
See Kosmos Power Rules for more infos.

Related terms: