IENC manual insertion
Manual insertion of buoys of the large German rivers into OSM from the IENC of the Water and Shipping Administration of the federal government (WSV).
The terms of usage for the IENC data of the German IENC have finally been modified to fit the needs of OpenStreetMap: Now there has no source note to be attached, especially if the data has been modified.
Data Source:
The source data download link is https://www.elwis.de/DE/Service/Inland-ENC-der-WSV/Inland-ENC-der-WSV-node.html
Terms of Use:
Permission to import has been explicitly granted. The formulation of the Terms of Use has been specially adapted to the requirements of OpenStreeMap.
Letter from WSV http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/images/c/c6/Terms_of_usage_ienc.pdf
Terms of use: https://www.elwis.de/RIS-Telematik/Inland-ENC-der-WSV/index.html
Procedure:
The insertion is purely manually: From the source data, the relevant data are partially extracted and opened in JOSM. Here each node and each polygon is checked manually, especially if the object is probably already available. Possible duplicate nodes are not imported or merged, landmarks are transferred the on existing buildings.
This will be no automated import. No files "will be uploaded to OSM directly:
1. The appropriate are is downloaded from OSM into JOSM
2. The IENC nodes and polygons of potential interest are opened in JOSM (in a different layer)
3. Relevant data is manually transferred into the OSM layer
4. The edits are uploaded to OSM
Conversion:
The IENC data is converted from the the S-100 to OSM format by a script called s57toosm. It is availiable at Github as s57toosm.
Inserted information:
Inserted will be elements relevant for inland navigation such as fairway buoys, navigation signs (traffic signs) and the labeling of buildings as landmarks, e.g. smokestacks. At places where the riverbanks are "raw state" (very long straight lines or rough sawtooth pattern), we adapt the shore course (waterway = riverbank) in balance with the bing satellite image.
OSM user:
Uploading after manual correction is done with its own user IENC-Import.
Change set tags:
Change Set comments will contain the names of the original IENC file
Areas:
The data are available for the following subsections waters in Germany:
Berlin-Spandauer-Schifffahrtskanal
Donau
Dortmund-Ems-Kanal
Elbe
Elbe-Havel-Kanal
Elbe-Seitenkanal
Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße
Main
Main-Donau-Kanal
Mittellandkanal
Mosel
Neckar
Rhein
Rhein-Herne-Kanal
Ruhr
Saar
Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße (Teilabschnitt)
Untere Havel-Wasserstraße (Spandau - Plaue)
Wesel-Datteln-Kanal Weser Westoder
Test:
Data, tags and procedure have been tested on the Main.
Object types:
The following types of objects (seamark: type =) will be inserted:
seamark:type=anchorage
seamark:type=anchor_berth
seamark:type=beacon_cardinal
seamark:type=beacon_isolated_danger
seamark:type=beacon_lateral
seamark:type=beacon_safe_water
seamark:type=beacon_special_purpose
seamark:type=berth
seamark:type=buoy_cardinal
seamark:type=buoy_installation
seamark:type=buoy_isolated_danger
seamark:type=buoy_lateral
seamark:type=buoy_safe_water
seamark:type=buoy_special_purpose
seamark:type=cable_submarine
seamark:type=daymark
seamark:type=fairway
seamark:type=harbour
seamark:type=landmark
seamark:type=light
seamark:type=light_major
seamark:type=light_minor
seamark:type=light_float
seamark:type=light_vessel
seamark:type=mooring
seamark:type=navigation_line
seamark:type=notice
seamark:type=restricted_area
seamark:type=signal_station_traffic
seamark:type=signal_station_warning
seamark:type=small_craft_facility
seamark:type=topmark
The supposed duplication between tags of pure objects (e.g. lighthouse manmade=lighthouse or building=church) and their meaning for navigation (e.g. seamark:type=light_major or seamark:type=landmark) has already been well discussed: Not every such objects has a significance for navigation. So it is not a redundancy, but a supplementary tagging. This applies in particular to harbor=yes/seamark:type=harbor and historic=wreck/seamark:type=wreck.
Progress
| Waterway | Progress |
|---|---|
| Berlin-Spandauer-Schifffahrtskanal | |
| Donau | 100% done, Kehlheim - Jochenstein |
| Dortmund-Ems-Kanal | 100% done |
| Elbe | 100% done |
| Elbe-Havel-Kanal | 100% done |
| Elbe-Seitenkanal | 100% done |
| Havel-Oder-Wasserstraße / Westoder | 100% done |
| Main | 100% done, Mainz - Bamberg |
| Main-Donau-Kanal | 100% done |
| Mittellandkanal | 100% done |
| Stichkanal Hannover-Linden | |
| Stichkanal Hildesheim | |
| Stichkanal Osnabrück | |
| Stichkanal Salzgitter | |
| Mosel | 100% done, Koblenz - Apach |
| Neckar | |
| Rhein | 100% done, Emmerich - Iffezheim |
| Rhein-Herne-Kanal | |
| Ruhr | 100% done |
| Saar | |
| Spree-Oder-Wasserstraße (Spandau - Schleuse Mühlendamm) | 50% done |
| Untere Havel-Wasserstraße (Spandau - Plaue) | 100% done |
| Wesel-Datteln-Kanal | 10% done |
| Weser |