Key:power

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Description
For marking and tagging facilities for the generation and distribution of electrical power. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Group: power
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesmay be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)may be used on relations
Documented values: 29
See also
Status: approvedPage for proposal

This key is used to identify a wide range of facilities and features that relate to the generation and distribution of electrical power including power lines, power generation, pylons and sub-stations.

Values

For mapping electrical power plants, substations lines and associated infrastructure.

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Proposals

Here are the primary proposals that lead to current tagging model:

Rendering

OpenInfraMap renders electricity, telecommunications, water, petroleum, and microwave communications infrastructure, also features a similar rendering of power lines in one of its overlays, Names of substations and their highest voltage, and power plants are also indicated.

OSM power networks on Open Infrastructure Map

Another visualization can be seen at Flosm.de.

Possible tagging mistakes

If you know places with this tag, verify if it could be tagged with another tag.
Automated edits are strongly discouraged unless you really know what you are doing!

Quality control

See also

  • man_made=utility_pole - A single pole supporting elevation of any of various and unspecified public utilities, such as power transmission, lighting or telephony
  • electricity=* - To indicate the source of electricity used in a building, a dwelling or a settlement

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