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How to tag telephone switching sub station

1	How do I tag a telephone switching sub station? There is no business office. It receives microwaves and distributes over copper wires. infrastructure telephone asked 30 Dec '19, 17:02 dougcb68 101●7●7●12 accept rate: 0%

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0	Hi dougcb68, the general tag for these is `telecom=exchange`. Check out the wiki page for telecom=exchange for some other details that can be added. answered 30 Dec '19, 18:27 jmapb 3.4k●7●33●61 accept rate: 22%

It receives microwaves

You will need to map the receiver as a separate object.

telecom:medium=cooper is for the distribution side. I'm not aware of a scheme to tag the transmission side being microwave under telecom=exchange

answered 30 Dec '19, 23:45

Kovoschiz
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Find a tag or make one!

It's true that the telecom:medium tag describes the distribution side, ie, the interface for the telephone customers. I don't offhand know of any tag for specifying the network link type of a telecom exchange, but offhand I'd suggest telecom:network_link=microwave. No need to map it as a separate object.

(31 Dec '19, 01:51) jmapb

I mean the antenna/dish on the building.

(31 Dec '19, 15:05) Kovoschiz

0	What does this look like? Could it be: `man_made=mast` / `man_made=tower` + `tower:type=communication` + `communication:microwave=yes` per this page? answered 31 Dec '19, 16:05 InsertUser 11.0k●13●69●185 accept rate: 19%