[OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

[Bernhard R. Fischer]

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
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