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	Remarks
plugin	SMED	sailor	Malcolm	2011?		?
preset	Seamarks	all	Christian			[1]
preset	Watersport	canoeist	Markus			[2]
preset	Harbours	sailor	Markus			[3]
preset	Scubadiving	scuba diver	Inger			[ ]
preset	Seamarks	expert	Aun			[4]