Hi, On 11/23/2012 11:24 AM, Pieren wrote:
As I said, a simple landmark tag is enough. It does not need to specifiy again it is a cemetery when we can combine it with already existing OSM tags (like the "landuse=cemetery"). The tag can be "seamark = landmark" or "seamark:type=landmark", I don't care. But only one single key/value pair providing this information is enough.
True - a cemetery is a cemetery and whether or not cemeteries are used as landmarks by seamen doesn't change that.
It is inconceivable to have something tagged "landuse=cemetery" and "seamark:landmark:category=ferris_wheel".
Furthermore, is "landmark" really something that can be sensibly limited to the scope of naval tagging? Can there be something that is a landmark for navigation on water but not a landmark for other purposes, and vice versa?
Will OpenSeaMap soon start adding "seamark:type=shop", "seamark:shop=convenience" to existing "shop=convenience" objects if these shops can be used by sailors?
I have a suspicion that this duplication of tags is largely the result of OpenSeaMap trying to opt out of the rest of the community - "if we use our own namespace then we don't have to discuss with those landlubbers". We have bothered much about that as long as OpenSeaMap tagged offshore stuff but I think we cannot tolerate this on the 30% of the world surface that have 99.9% of the data ;)
Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
