Tag:man_made=monitoring_station

man_made = monitoring_station
Description
A station that monitors something.
Group: man made
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Useful combination
monitoring:water_level=yes/no monitoring:tide_gauge=yes/no monitoring:weather=yes/no monitoring:radiation=yes/no monitoring:air_quality=yes/no monitoring:noise=yes/no monitoring:traffic=yes/no monitoring:seismic_activity=yes/no monitoring:meteoric_activity=yes/no monitoring:gps=yes/no monitoring:glonass=yes/no
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There is a large variety of monitoring stations. Examples of environmental monitoring stations include weather stations, stream gauges that check water levels in rivers, tide gauges that check sea level, noise monitoring, and air quality monitoring. Monitoring stations are also used to calibrate signals from global navigation satellite systems.

This tag doesn't refer to objects used to "monitor" - that means intercept, eavesdrop or wiretap - any communication infrastructure. See Proposed_features/Intelligence for these.

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Monitored phenomena

Keys in the form monitoring:*=* are used to specify what properties or subjects are being monitored.

• monitoring:*=yes – The given phenomena is actively monitored.
• monitoring:*=no – The given phenomena is not actively monitored. This tag is typically implied, but may be added to avoid ambiguity.

Browse taginfo to see all keys in use. Some common keys are:

Water

• monitoring:water_level=* – Monitors surface water levels in rivers, streams, lakes, etc. (m)
• monitoring:tide_gauge=* – Monitors the tide level of the sea (m)
• monitoring:water_velocity=* – Monitors the speed of flowing water (m/s)
• monitoring:flow_rate=* – Monitors the volumetric flow rate of waterways like streams and rivers (m³/s)
• monitoring:water_volume=* – Monitors the amount of water in a basin such as a reservoir (m³)

Groundwater

• monitoring:groundwater=* – Monitors groundwater parameters
• monitoring:groundwater_level=* – Monitors groundwater levels (m)

Water quality

• monitoring:water_quality=* – Monitors one or more dimensions of water quality
• monitoring:water_temperature=* – Monitors the temperature of the sea, rivers, streams or lakes.
• monitoring:water_conductivity=* – Monitors the ability of water to conduct electricity
• monitoring:water_turbidity=* – Monitors the turbidity of water, its clarity
• monitoring:water_pH=* – Monitors the pH of water, its acidity
• monitoring:dissolved_oxygen=* – Monitors the dissolved oxygen of water
• monitoring:salinity=* – Monitors the salinity of water, its level of dissolved salts
• monitoring:water_nitrate=* – Monitors the nitrate content of water
• monitoring:water_nitrite=* – Monitors the nitrite content of water

Weather

• monitoring:weather=* – Monitors the weather.
• monitoring:wind=* – Monitors one or more dimensions of wind
• monitoring:wind_speed=* – Monitors the wind speed.
• monitoring:wind_direction=* – Monitors the wind direction.
• monitoring:precipitation=* – Monitors rain, snow, and other precipitation.
• monitoring:rainfall=* – Monitors only rainfall.

Air

• monitoring:air_quality=* – Monitors one or more dimensions of air quality
• monitoring:air_temperature=*
• monitoring:air_pressure=*
• monitoring:air_humidity=*
• monitoring:particulate_matter=* – Monitors particulates in the air
• monitoring:visibility=* – Monitors visbility

Snow

• monitoring:snow=* – Monitors one or more dimensions of snow
• monitoring:snow_depth=* – Monitors the depth of fallen snow (m)
• monitoring:snow_density=* – Monitors the density of snowpack (kg/m³)

Soil

• monitoring:soil_temperature=* – Monitors soil temperature
• monitoring:soil_moisture=* – Monitors soil moisture (sometimes called soil humidity)

Earth

• monitoring:seismic_activity=* – Monitors seismic activity.

Space

• monitoring:cosmic_ray=*
• monitoring:meteoric_activity=* – Monitors meteoric activity.

Radiation

• monitoring:radiation=* – Monitors some kind of radiation.
• monitoring:solar_radiation=* – Monitors solar irradiance.
• monitoring:shortwave_radiation=* – Monitors shortwave radiation.

Communications

• monitoring:gps=* – Monitors signals from the Global Positioning System satellite cluster.
• monitoring:glonass=* – Monitors signals from the GLONASS satellite cluster.

Sound

• monitoring:noise=* – Monitors ambient sound levels.

Traffic

• monitoring:traffic=* – Monitors traffic.
• monitoring:bicycle=* – Monitors bicycle traffic, e.g. counting number of bicycle passing through a cycleway every day/week/month
• monitoring:pedestrian=* – Monitors pedestrian traffic, e.g. counting the number of people walking down a walkway or sidewalk

Structures

• monitoring:air_gap=* – Monitors the open space beneath a structure, such as between a bridge and a river

Electronics

• monitoring:battery_voltage=* – Monitors the voltage of a battery, perhaps one that powers the monitoring station.

General

• monitoring:temperature=* – Monitors some kind of temperature (probably air).
• monitoring:humidity=* – Monitors some kind of humidity (probably air).

Secondary

No defaults are defined here since depending on the type of station, the operator and the things monitored it is impossible to define an always correct default value.

• display=yes/no
• display:analog=yes
• display:digital=yes
• recording=yes/no
• recording:manually=yes
• recording:automated=yes
• recording:remote=yes

Useful combinations

• operator=company name or similar - Сompany, corporation, person or any other entity who is directly in charge of the current operation of a map object
• name=* - The primary name: in general, the most prominent signposted name or the most common name in the local language(s).
• ref=* - Used for reference numbers or codes. Common for roads, highway exits, routes, etc
• url=* - Specifying an url related to a feature.
• website=* - Specifying the link to the official website for a feature.
• wikipedia=* - Provides a link to Wikipedia's article about the feature

Example images

• 
  flood gauge at Murrumbidgee River.
• 
  A technician examines a weather station's anemometer.
• 
  Remote GPS monitoring site.
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  Monitoring meteoric activity - FRIPON Network. (La Chapelle-aux-Lys - France)

External links

• International GPS Station Tracking Network -- GPS/GLONASS monitoring stations world wide
• MMS: Multi-Network Metadata System -- Weather stations world wide
• OGC Sensor Observation Service -- A protocol for reading data from sensors and creating sensor networks

See also

• aeroway=windsock - An object that shows wind direction and speed.
• man_made=observatory - Area that can contain several monitoring stations
• amenity=clock - A publicly visible clock
• Proposed features/monitoring_station - approved proposal of this feature
• Proposed features/Street cabinet - proposal to unify several other types of technical cabinets commonly found in streets (may overlap with some monitoring stations)
• Mechanical edit proposal for converting measurement station to monitoring station
• measurement=* - for measurements taken in from pipelines in substation=measurement

monitoring=*

More details at taginfo

• monitoring=*

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Related terms: ‹ monitoring station › ‹ weather station ›