Tag:man_made=communications_tower

man_made = communications_tower
Description
A huge tower for transmitting radio applications
Rendering in OSM Carto
Group: Man made
Used on these elements
Useful combination
height=* name=* tower:type=*
Status: de facto
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A man_made=communications_tower, also known as telecommunications tower, is a huge tower for transmitting radio applications like television, radio, mobile phone or officials radio. They are quite rare and distinguished by their very large size, and status as a local monument or landmark. Examples are the  Fernsehturm Berlin, the  CN Tower, the  Torre Entel, the  Hillbrow Tower, the  Oriental Pearl Tower and the  Sydney Tower.

If in doubt it is almost all the time a man_made=mast or man_made=tower plus tower:type=communication instead, see below.

How to map

Set a node or draw an area along its outline. Add the tag man_made=communications_tower.

Useful combinations

• height=*
• name=*
• ele=*
• operator=*
• tower:type=*
  • tower:type=communication
  • tower:type=observation
• communication:television=*
• communication:radio=*
• communication:bos=*
• communication:mobile_phone=*

Distinguish between other kinds of communications towers

First question: Is it a mast or a tower?

• 

  man_made=mast

• 

  man_made=tower

• 

  man_made=communications_tower

Second question: What kind of services are being provided?

• communication:mobile_phone=yes
• communication:radio=yes
• communication:television=yes
• communication:microwave=yes
• communication:amateur_radio=yes

Examples

	Guyed lattice tower man_made=mast tower:construction=guyed_lattice tower:type=communication communication:radio=yes material=steel height=*
	Mobile phone man_made=mast tower:type=communication communication:mobile_phone=yes
	Police radio man_made=mast tower:type=communication communication:bos=yes
	Microwave link(s) (German: Richtfunk) man_made=mast or man_made=tower tower:type=communication communication:microwave=yes
	No mast any more, but a tower man_made=tower tower:type=communication communication:mobile_phone=yes communication:radio=yes communication:microwave=yes
	Really big communications towers >= 100 m: man_made=communications_tower tower:type=communication communication:television=yes communication:radio=yes communication:mobile_phone=yes communication:microwave=yes building=yes height=250

Possible tagging error

man_made=communications_transponder

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More details at taginfo

• man_made=communications_transponder

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