As a general note (you write some paragraphs about merging the external dataset with the existing data in OSM) it would be nice to have your importing procedure explicitly state that existing data prevails and conflicts would ideally be resolved by survey.
You state that every single object will get a source-tag, but generally the recommendation is to give attribution in the OSM wiki and state the source in the changeset-comment (and in the description page for the user you are creating for the import). I still find it strange to prefix everything with "seamark", e.g. landmark or harbour, objects for which there is also standard tags in OSM (what do we gain in duplicating them in different namespaces?). For most objects of your list I agree that the prefix seamark will avoid potential confusion and facilitate e.g. filtering in the editor, as they are only interesting to whom moves on the water. Finally I'm really pleased to hear that WSV has released their data, the situation was quite different years ago when I last looked at their available datasets and conditions. cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
