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129197905 almost 3 years ago

Thinking about it more, probably the right tagging for a guyed mast is man_made=mast. Unless you are an engineer, then one mast will look like another. Then further takking with tower:type=radio.

129197905 almost 3 years ago

Sort of. A self supporting mast is a tower. A medium wave (and usually short wave/long wave) can be a mast and antenna - usually they are guyed. I suppose they could be tagged as man_made=mast and mast:type=antenna or man_made=antenna and antenna:type=mast. There is quite a lot of potential for confusion.

129197905 almost 3 years ago

Yes! A mast is not a self supporting structure. A mast has guy wires to keep it in place. Most cell phone towers are incorrectly described as masts. In broadcast, there are either towers or masts. And in the broadcast context, you could say communications tower. However, tower with a type is more appropriate.

A tower or mast could have no function at all. An antenna is actually involved in transmitting a signal. Most often it is a smaller part attached to a tower or mast.

It is possible for a mast, or less commonly a tower to be an antenna. That would be the case with a medium-wave transmitter where the whole structure becomes the antenna. It would still be best described as a tower or mast though based on its physical appearance.

I hope that helps!

129197905 almost 3 years ago

I changed them all to man_made=tower

Regards

98440315 almost 5 years ago

Work in progress!

97251496 almost 5 years ago

Yes. I don't know what it is, but it has a few floors.

91404478 about 5 years ago

Yes! I had an email from Tui this morning saying the shop was permanently closed. I had planned to check before deleting the node completely.

56654104 almost 8 years ago

The vast majority of what I saw was Erbil. It is worth having a look at the talk page for Erbil at Wikipedia as there is a fair discussion there. I do not read Arabic or Kurdish, so I cannot comment on those.

56654104 almost 8 years ago

I was not aware of the edit wars over this. I was there last month and I know people from that region. From what I have seen, Erbil is the common spelling, though I accept it is often transliterated as Arbil. Wikivoyage has just changed their page from Arbil to Erbil to align with Wikipedia. From what I have seen elsewhere, transliteration often throws up problems like this.