Key:tower:type
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Describes the type of tower, mast or power-tower. 
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Tower type combined with man_made=tower or man_made=mast
Tower:type
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| Masts (man_made=mast) | |||||
| tower:type | communication | Communication mast |  |
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| tower:type | lighting | Poles for lighting |  |
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| tower:type | popinjay | Pole archery |  | ||
| Towers (man_made=tower) | |||||
| tower:type | communication | Communication towers |  |
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| tower:type | communication | Lattice communication towers + tower:construction=lattice |
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| tower:type | radar | Radar tower |  | ||
| tower:type | observation | Observation tower |  |
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| tower:type | watchtower | Watch Tower | |
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| tower:type | bell_tower | Bell tower |  |
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| tower:type | minaret | Minaret |  | ||
| tower:type | defensive | Fortified defensive tower |  |
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| tower:type | cooling | Cooling tower |  |
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| tower:type | user defined | Any other type of a tower. |  |
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| A huge tower for transmitting radio applications (man_made=communications_tower) | |||||
| man_made | communications_tower | Communication towers |  |
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This table is a wiki template with a default description in English. Editable here.
Tower type combined with power=tower
This tag describes the functional type or role of the transmission tower, such as anchor tower. Please note that the tower:type=* tag has other meanings when used in combination with man_made=tower.
To resolve this Proposed features/Lines clamps is being worked out.
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tower:type | suspension | A tower which supports the conductors vertically using suspension insulators. This is the default type and need not be tagged. However it may be useful to tag a suspension tower if it is used as an angle tower (an anchor tower would normally be expected here) |
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tower:type | anchor | A tower where conductor sections terminate at strain insulators. It is normally built stronger than suspension towers. Mostly used as angle tower when the line changes direction. |
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tower:type | termination | A tower with strain insulators used at the end of a line, for example at a substation or at the transition to an underground cable (add location:transition=yes). Designed to resist the full one-sided tension of the conductors. |
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tower:type | branch | A line branch starts at this tower. If the branch line is a cable then add location:transition=yes. The branching can take different forms which can be indicated by the following tags.
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tower:type | transposing | A tower in which the conductors exchange positions in order to balance the capacitance and impedance of the conductors. |
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tower:type | crossing | A special tower used at river crossings etc where a very long span or a large clearance is required. These towers may be very tall and are therefore significant landmarks. |
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location:transition | yes | This attribute denotes that one or more circuits transition to an underground cable in this tower. The cable terminals are located in the tower itself (no fenced area on the ground). The key location:transition=* replaces the values tower=transition and tower=air_to_ground which should no longer be used. For fenced transition stations with cable terminals on the ground use power=substation and substation=transition |
See also
- tower:construction=* - Describes the construction of a tower or mast
- man_made=tower - A tower is a building, which is higher than it is wide
- man_made=mast - A mast is a vertical structure built to hold, for example, antennas
- power=tower - For towers or pylons carrying high voltage electricity cables. Normally constructed from steel latticework
