[OSM-talk] Tagging Seamarks

[Malcolm Herring]

Andreas Labres wrote:
> Continuing dispute between the two groups

I was suggesting that a state of peaceful co-existence can be achieved - 
Our editors will not alter or remove tags that are not ours, and 
hopefully this will be reciprocated.

> and become productive (get nice renderers, get nice editors etc.).

Nice renderers and editors do not just materialize - they have to be 
written by the members of the sub-projects. This is the crux of the 
matter - after having spend considerable time developing those tools, 
based on a particular set of tag definitions, any later suggestion that 
we should change them is not going to receive an enthusiastic response!

As far as users are concerned, editors remove the need to manually edit 
tags, thus no knowledge of the tagging scheme is necessary. As to the 
question of which scheme to use - choose the editor that will place your 
work onto the map overlay that you want to see it on.

PS: there has been a recent update of the OpenSeaMap JOSM plugin 
("toms"). This is now in the OSM repository, so it can be installed 
using the JOSM Preferences dialogue. The accompanying Mappaint styles 
will shortly be installable by this method also.