Hi, As a professional master mariner I see the problem here, and I fully agree with you.
I think the first step in a process to merge the two tagging schemes is to fully document them both. I have been active in the discussion one of them, while the other have been closed to a small circle, and originally documented in German. I was not aware of the second scheme until voting was underway on the proposal where I took part. When the schemes are fully documented we can start to look into how this problem can best be solved, and what scheme to become standard should be based upon user popularity. A bot to add the tags of the other schemes should be possible, at least as long as some sort of unisom documentation exists. These bots can in first turn make all marine tagged objects follow the two schemes, and later we can have the various projects agree on changing the stylesheets to that of the most popular scheme, letting the lesser popular fade away naturally. As far as I can see, the datamodel in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lights_Data_Model mainly focuses on inland waterway style tagging, i.e. seamarks found along canals and navigatable rivers, while http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/marine-tagging fathoms broader for open water features as well. Aun Johnsen On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Bernhard R. Fischer <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi! > > For a long time now I am interested in tagging seamarks.....(short version) > > Now I found out that there are two comparable but different and competing > tagging schemes: > > * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/marine-tagging > * http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lights_Data_Model > > The first one is used by freietonne.de the second one by openseamap.org. > Consequently, there exist two disjoint marine maps. > > This is extremely frustrating! > Computers do not care about attribute names and we shouldn't also as long > as > both schemes fulfill the same requirements. > > Why can't we just agree on one of those two schemes and change the tag > names > in the renderer and rename all tags in the database from one scheme to the > other one? > > Best regards, > Bernhard > aka Rahra > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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