[Tagging] Difference between lighthouses and beacons

[Malcolm Herring]

On 18/01/2018 13:52, Janko Mihelić wrote:
> I looked at man_made=beacon. Taginfo says we have about 7 000 of those, 
> and the wiki shows something that resembles what we are talking about, 
> but not quite:
> 

man_made=beacon *is* the appropriate tag for such structures. Tags in 
the "seamark" namespace relate only to the *navigational function* of an 
object, not the physical form. Many beacon objects have no navigational 
function & therefore do not carry "seamark" tags.

It is important mappers doing a surveys can apply correct tags to 
observed objects without any knowledge of their function.