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How to tag a radar tower?

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Southeast of Helsinki there is an island named Eestiluoto which has a tower (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/60.12434/25.22273). This tower is tagged as watch tower, but in fact it is a radar tower with a rotating antenna on the top. And there are several of this kind along the Finnish coastline. IMHO a tag "radar tower" should be created (at least I did not find something like this). I think, "watch tower" is wrong because there are no watching persons in the tower.

asked 23 Aug '20, 21:43

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edited 23 Aug '20, 21:44


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This is documented as tower:type=radar on the wiki.

Tower construction can be tagged separately.

answered 23 Aug '20, 22:39

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