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P3D v5 Power lines close to airport

crushnik

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I would like to put in telephone poles along power lines that are within a mile of airports. This seems like it would be easy: tell ScenProc to look for "aeroway=aerodrome" polygons and do a LineToPoint for "power=line," but filtering through the osm.pbf file's power line tags is not something I know how to do. Downloading an OSM shapefile makes working in QGIS much easier but it also changes all the OSM tags, which I need to use so I can filter out all but the smaller telephone lines like those you'd find in residential areas. What would be the best solution for this issue?
 
Chris, I use OSM road data for the placement of telephone poles, not Power=line as that is for high power transmission towers (at least for here in the USA). OSM road data will have a built in filter since it breaks down roads by road type. Since you just want it for residential areas, filter out all other road type except for residential.
 
I like your idea, but I have an old computer and all those poles would overwhelm it. You did lead me to realizing "power=minor_line" would work a lot better since I already have high-voltage lines for the whole United States from a national database. Those I set up with "Utility 2" GUID. What do you use for your pole placement setup, a library object?
 
"Power=minor_line," spread 100m apart, only got me 15,000 poles for the entire state of Nevada -- if replacing "powertower" with "telephonepole" in the script even works since I guessed at that. So I think I'll try your suggestion of poles along the roads. To keep there from being too many is there a way to limit the placement to within a mile of aerodromes since I'd only be seeing them on takeoff and landing anyways?
 
To answer your question, yes, we create our own library objects. Off the top of my head, a way I could see where some kind of script (maybe in scenProc), where you obtain the airport reference point, create a circle polygon one mile out from that point, place all your poles using roads, utilities or what ever, then filter out all the poles that are outside the 1 mile airport polygon. Just an idea.
 
I followed along with the example from the manual and realized that the telephone poles become autogen if you follow the process and not scenery objects like I thought they were. Since millions of trees and buildings aren't much of a factor, a few more poles wouldn't be either. Just going with placing the telephone poles along secondary and tertiary roads for the time being and will see how that goes. Thanks for pointing me in this direction!
 
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