[amenity-points] man_made=tower rendering

[openstreetmap-trac]

Reporter: kubajz[at]kbx.cz
[Submitted to the original trac issue database at 11.20pm, Sunday, 8th March 2009]

I think it would be very useful to have man_made tower symbol rendered in map. It is usually POI and is very useful for navigation as it can be seen from far distances. An example location is for example http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.7448&lon=14.34262&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF . The tower is located on top of the hill right next to the small building in which the backplane for GSM BTS tower resides. If there is no symbol available yet, I can draw some. I suppose to render the symbol from zoom 13 and greater.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: mabapla
[Added to the original trac issue at 11.55am, Sunday, 19th July 2009]

I second this ticket.
Towers are the primary example for landmarks so I also think they should really be rendered by the Mapnik style.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: _al
[Added to the original trac issue at 12.34pm, Saturday, 14th August 2010]

may I remind to this... and please distinguish tower:type=communication vs tower:type=observation
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtower

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: !i!
[Added to the original trac issue at 7.46am, Sunday, 22nd August 2010]

One short reminder: you allready render man_made=mast that is deprecated
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.310091&lon=15.682191&zoom=18

So you might want to change it to tower?

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: chris66
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.39am, Friday, 22nd October 2010]

I support this change request. towers are very important landmarks and should appear on the map.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Axel007
[Added to the original trac issue at 1.34pm, Wednesday, 23rd March 2011]

A reminder: Please please render man_made=tower, tower:type=communication
I want to add cellphone towers.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 10.36pm, Wednesday, 23rd March 2011]

Nobody is keeping you from adding these to OSM. Whether we will render all or some of them is another question.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: Ldp
[Added to the original trac issue at 8.49pm, Monday, 11th April 2011]

To clarify my last comment: we cannot filter on tower:type yet. That's a major reason why we're not rendering them yet.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: !i!
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.09pm, Friday, 12th August 2011]

I support this request, cause different objects with same heigths get rendered already: power poles, water_towers, ....
But I agree, that it should become a very simple icon

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: OceanVortex
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.12am, Sunday, 29th April 2012]

I'm disappointed that three years later, towers are still not being rendered.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: scai
[Added to the original trac issue at 9.04am, Tuesday, 1st May 2012]

I second this request, large towers can be very helpful in navigation.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: wyo
[Added to the original trac issue at 2.45pm, Wednesday, 2nd May 2012]

I've added a symbol (SVG) for "man_made=chimney" as this is as well a tower.

[openstreetmap-trac]

Author: math1985
[Added to the original trac issue at 5.50pm, Monday, 14th April 2014]

This issue is now being discussed on Github:
gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto#181

Therefore, I will close the issue here.