[Tagging] Difference between lighthouses and beacons

Janko Mihelić janjko at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 15:27:42 UTC 2018


čet, 18. sij 2018. u 15:27 Malcolm Herring <malcolm.herring at btinternet.com>
napisao je:

> 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.
>

Ok, so man_made=beacon is used for the physical structure that is made to
cary the light, and the seamark tags are used to define what kind of a
light is it. That looks correct.

I'm in the process of making a new icon, and I can make a pull request on
the openstreetmap-carto soon.

Janko
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