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How to tag a outdoor DSLAM

Hey

I'm wondering how to tag a DSLAM outdoor cabinet like this one: see right side in the photo below. They're pretty common in Germany.

Photo by FEXX, PD

Some possible Tags I found:

man_made=MDF for Main Distribution Frame, but this one can't distinguish between outdoor/indoor, Wiki
man_made=street_cabinet + street_cabinet=telecom or street_cabinet=outdoor_dslam there was Proposal for a generic tag for street cabinets, but there isn't a straigt definition for DSLAMs , see Wiki
power=cable_distribution_cabinet + communication=cable_distribution_cabinet or communication=outdoor_dslam pretty often used, see Wiki

I don't know the technically differences that might be in the tags above, so it would be great to hear some recommendations or even other tags! At the moment the new street_cabinet tagging is most appealing to me.

Thanks in advance!

tagging dslam street_cabinet

asked 05 Dec '14, 08:39

kerosin
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edited 05 Dec '14, 12:26

aseerel4c26 ♦
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One Answer:

Sadly there is no kind of unified schema for telecommunication equipment as we have already for power=* stuff (compare for example https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:!i!/telecommunication).

There is a german redirect for "DSL Hauptverteiler", so I guess currently man_made=MDF is the right choice as there was for example an import with this tag. Would be great, if one day we can bring all things together ... but tagging discussions can take a lot of time ...

answered 05 Dec '14, 17:32

iii
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There was some discussion about MDF on the tagging mailing list in April. Since I'm not familiar with the concept, I don't understand the arguments used over there. Maybe you do.

(05 Dec '14, 18:07) escada