OpenSeaMap-dev:Android/Editing tools

Tools for editing the chart (the database) are the most important part of crowdsourcing by community members.

There are two ways for editing:

• Online Editor (directly in the chart)
• Offline Editor (by a GIS-editor)

History

Online-Editor

In the first year of OpenSeaMap, Olaf scripted the OpenSeaMap-Online-Editor. It was well designed, in a userfriendly GUI style. But the challenge to keep it op to date was to big. So the maintanance stopped 2010 and delinked 2011.

Offline Editor JOSM

JOSM is a very well maintained Offline-Editor of OpenStreetMap. It is a complexe and complete GIS-tool.

Chart style for JOSM

For OpenSeaMap needs, there is a specific chart-style, developed by Malcolm 2011(?).

During a not agreed step in the JOSM-development in 2011(?), this chart style did not work any more since then.
A workaround was to display each "seamark:"-object by a OpenSeaMap-icon.

This does no work for all other OpenSeaMap-objects like "harbour:", "scuba-diving:", "whitewater:",
which are displayed since 2011(?) by a non-specific "dot".

Malcolm is developing a "new renderer" since then.

SeaMapEditor (SMED)

Malcolm scripted SMED, a nice GUI-editor as JOSM-plugin. First content was lights, buoys and beacons.

For adding this by other objects like

Actual tools

For OpenSeaMap needs, there are several specific tools targeted to specific user groups like sailors, divers, canoeists.

Class	Name	User	Maintainer	Start	Release	Source	en	de	Links	Remarks
plugin	SMED	sailor	Malcolm	2011?		?	x	x	wrong	nur LF und Bojen keine Entwicklung seit 2012
preset	Seamarks	all	Christian			[1]	x	x	x
preset	Watersport	canoeist	Malcolm			[2]	x	x	wrong	Canoeing . Rest unbrauchbar.
preset	Harbours	sailor	Malcolm			[3]	x
preset	Scubadiving	scuba diver	Inger	2014?		[4]	x	x	missing
preset	Seamarks	expert	Aun	2014-11		[5]	x

Preset Seamarks

ToDo

1. Add the preset "Seamarks" by important and common used seamarks.

2. Add each new entry by a specific icon.

3. Add each entry by a specific Wiki-link in English and German.

4. Add a link to the "Expert version" of seamarks (INT-1).

Preset Harbours

The preset "Harbour" is a workaround for the missing plugin of SMED concerning "Harbour, Marina, Anchorage".

Harbours need a hierarchical/relational tagging. Harbours are different in size, importance, prominence, etc. A big harbour like "Hamburg" consists of a lot of harbour parts for specific tasks and goods. All this we need to represent in the chart.

Small craft facilities

ToDo

1. Add each entry by a specific icon.

2. Add each entry by a specific Wiki-link in English and German.

Preset Watersport

The part "Whitewater" is very nice.

All other parts are very unspecific, in this state unuseful.

ToDo

1. Import the preset "Scubadiving" as part of "Watersport".

2. Delete all other entries, without "Whitewater".

3. Add all entries by a specific Wiki-link in English and German.

Make a concept for other watersports and describe the tagging in the Wiki.

Preset Scubadiving

ToDo

1. Embedd the preset "Scubadiving" into the preset "Watersport".

2. Delete the preset "Scubadiving".

Preset Seaamarks INT-1

Some INT-1 and/or S-57/S-100 descriptions does not fit to OSM-tagging.
In this cases we need to discuss how we can improve OSM-tagging and/or INT-1/S-57/S-100 tagging.

A lot of IHO-tagging is not described in an undersandable and comprehensible way.
So there is a lot of misunderstnding in GB-/US-Englisch, and notably after translating into other languages.

The only working solution for intrnational using it is explaining by pictures about the meaning of an expression (and the not-meaning).

ToDo

1. Add all entries by specific icons.

2. Add all entries by a specific Wiki-link in English and German.

3. Write missing Wiki-pages. Use pictures!

4. Reorganize the entries in a more userfriendly system (nowbody knews INT-1 chapters).