Lights

First encounters

After mapping street lights and poles and then Seamark lights I looked deeper into how to map light mostly light that is made my man and is in a consistent location. The addition of mapping lighting in Street Complete made this question greater with a tag like lit=yes this is great and all but not very descriptive if talking about a street or a way that may have puddles of lights at each street light.

Beyond

This has taken me to the point of looking at adding night lighting to the tops of power poles or rotating beacons on top of airport towers. These sorts of things could be found it mapping seamarks but for the most part is not appropriate for Open Sea Map. This is the line between it exists and there is a standard to make the light show and to add the correct tags to describe its sequence of flashing but it is not a seamark light but there is overlap between. There are power pole or tower lights that do show on nautical charts.

Thoughts and reflection

Are we mapping with enough detail, is it easy for a first time mapper to contribute, and are we mapping for the renderer? Anything I missed below?

Lit:

osm.wiki/Key:lit

Highway:

osm.wiki/Key:flashing_lights osm.wiki/Tag:highway%3Dtraffic_signals osm.wiki/Key:crossing osm.wiki/Tag:highway%3Dstreet_lamp

Railway:

osm.wiki/Tag:railway%3Dlevel_crossing osm.wiki/Tag:railway%3Dsignal

Man_made:

osm.wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dlighthouse

Seamark: osm.wiki/Seamarks/Lights osm.wiki/Seamarks/INT-1_Section_P

Complicated Light mapping. osm.wiki/Seamarks/Sectored_and_Directional_Lights

Aviation: osm.wiki/Proposed_features/Aviation_Obstacle_Light

I am following ᚛ᚐᚋᚐᚅᚇᚐ᚜ as they are leading the way with a diary entry. This will be a work in progress entry until the end of May.

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Always making edits surrounding edits of railroads with gps traces and Tiger Road data on. I often find data that has not been entered this way.