Frederik Ramm wrote: > 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 not > bothered much about that as long as OpenSeaMap tagged > offshore stuff
But we should. OSM is not a hosting platform for a thousand-and-one discreet mapping projects. It is one big database that anyone can consult. You can't just say "we're building Bill'sMarineMap, so I'm going to stuff the database with Bill's custom tags which Bill'sMarineMap will use". How OSM works is that you use universal tags that any client can parse. We survey for OSM, not for Bill'sMarineMap; because Fred or Brian or Jill or Winston might want to make a sea map, too. I'm making waterway maps from OSM data. If I want to make a map of the River Trent Navigation from source to sea, including the canals that branch off it, I shouldn't have to parse four distinct tagging schemes devised for individual projects: "OpenSeaMap tagging scheme", the "OpenCanalMap tagging scheme", the "OpenRiverMap tagging scheme", and the "standard OSM tagging scheme". I should just have to parse OSM tags. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Clean-up-the-seamark-landmark-tags-on-the-wiki-and-perhaps-later-in-the-db-tp5736980p5737154.html Sent from the Tagging mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
