Seamarks/Buoyage Systems
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Seamark tagging
Buoyage systems
The tags defined on this page will render in various nautical charts.
This page defines values for the "seamark:buoy_lateral:system" and "seamark:beacon_lateral:system" tags for lateral marks.
Coastal systems
There are two systems used for coastal lateral marks:
| System | seamark:buoy_lateral:system
seamark:beacon_lateral:system |
Region | Colours |
|---|---|---|---|
 IALA-A
|
iala-a | World, except Americas, Korea & Japan | Red Port-hand, Green Starboard-hand |
| IALA-B
|
iala-b | Americas, Korea & Japan | Green Port-hand, Red Starboard-hand |
Inland systems
There are a number systems used for inland lateral marks:
| System | seamark:buoy_lateral:system
seamark:beacon_lateral:system |
Region | Colours |
|---|---|---|---|
| CEVNI | cevni | Europe | Red right bank; green left bank. See: CEVNI lateral marks and CEVNI notice marks |
| Russian inland waterway regulations | riwr | Russia | |
| Brazilian national inland waterway regulations - two sides | bniwr2 | Brazil | Lateral marks: green right bank; red left bank. Notice marks see: BNIWR notice marks |
| Brazilian national inland waterway regulations - side independent | bniwr | Brazil | Lateral marks: green right bank; red left bank. Notice marks see: BNIWR notice marks |
| Paraguay-Parana waterway - Brazilian complementary aids | ppwbc | Paraguay |
Non-specific systems
| System | seamark:buoy_lateral:system
seamark:beacon_lateral:system |
Definition |
|---|---|---|
| No system | none | Navigational aids do not conform to any defined system. |
| Other system | other | Navigational aids conform to a defined system other than International Association of Lighthouse Authorities (IALA). |
References
OSM seamark resources
- Seamark tag values(en)
- Seamark objects(en)
- Seamark attributes(en)
- Categories of objects(en)
- INT-1 cross reference(en)
- Inland waterway notice marks (CEVNI, Europe)(en)
- Inland waterway lateral marks (CEVNI, Europe)(en)
- Inland waterway notice marks (BNIWR, Brazil)(en)
- Inland waterway notice marks (PPWBC, Brazil/Paraguay)(en)
- Inland waterway notice marks (RIWR, Russia)(en)
JOSM presets & styles
External sources
- S-101 ENC/iENC registry (iho.int), the ENC Data Classification and Encoding Guide (DCEG) can be downloaded as zipped PDF, online access to symbols in Portrayal Register
- International nautical chart symbol legend (Chart INT-1, NOAA)
- Encoding Guide for Inland ENCs (openecdis.org, 2018), an international standard of the Inland ENC Harmonization Group is currently in development (IEHG Publication S-401, 2019)
- European Code for Inland Waterways (CEVNI), (UNECE, Fifth revised version 2015)
- European Code for Signs and Signals on Inland Waterways (SIGNI), (UNECE Resolution N0. 90, 2018)
- U.S. Aids to Navigation System – also details the Western Waters Marking System, Intracoastal Waterway system, and Uniform State Waterway Marking System