Hi. I've done some changes to the tagging based on those comments (e.g. marking helicopter landing bases, tagging unlit buoys, etc.) and produced another OSM file:

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/lighthouses.osm

That should be nearly ready to upload now? Are you going to upload?

I assume "VQ" means very quick. Any idea what "Iso" and "Dir" mean in the description of a character?

e.g. "Dir Iso WRG 5s" or "Iso WR 5s"

Also, "LFl", as in "LFl 10s" (long flash?)

Thanks for those answers. I have some more questions though :(

Are the daymarks abbreviations for something, or just text?

What are the different numbers in 'Nominal_Range(s)'? And what units are they in?

When it says "Granite tower, green lantern" in the description, does that mean that it emits green light, or that the outside of the lantern-room is painted green?

When there's something with a "helicopter landing port" in its name (in the lighthouses section of data), is it a lighthouse too, or just a heliport?

Do you happen to know any way of converting "max sea level (spring)" heights to regular (e.g. "above mean sea level") heights?

I have a few questions about the meaning of some descriptions - any chance we could get answers from someone who knows more about lighthouses/CIL than me?

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Dlighthouse#Questions

you should be able to "save page as" in your browser and save as an OSM file, rather than copy/pasting it into a text editor? (can some windows-user confirm the details for IE?). Or right-click on the link and "save link as" to store it on disk without any copy/pasting.

p.s. I didn't fix the degrees symbol - you'll need to do that manually after downloading it (search for RL355 to find one of the places it's used)

Tagging discussion: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Tag:man_made%3Dlighthouse

smsm1:

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/parse.pl.txt

I just updated that OSM file so it links to the the lighthouse history pages on CIL's website (e.g. http://www.cil.ie/flat_areaEQLlighthousesAMPLighthouseIDEQL33_entry.html ) rather than just to the spreadsheet URL.

Hi Dolphin.

I converted your KML file to an OSM file. You should be able to view this in JOSM (and perhaps upload it, after you've checked that all the data is correct)

http://dev.openstreetmap.org/~ojw/files/Lighthouses/lighthouses.osm

if you need any changes, just ask...

looks a bit messy when there are 10 buildings all with the hall name -- that's how it is at the moment...