How do you tag single (historic) burial places? I am currently looking
for a tagging scheme to structure these kind of places, but am unsure
about the wording.
My suggestions would be
* historic=grave
or
* historic=tomb
for the main tag. Subtags would then be
grave=pyramid
grave=mausoleum
On 01/02/11 11:48, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
How do you tag single (historic) burial places? I am currently looking
for a tagging scheme to structure these kind of places, but am unsure
about the wording.
My suggestions would be
* historic=grave
or
* historic=tomb
for the main tag. Subtags
2011/2/1 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net:
What do you say about the wording? Would tomb or grave be suited better?
A grave tends to be a hole dug in the ground to bury one or more bodies, a
tomb is more of a structure, so they are not mutually exclusive.
I would group pyramid, mausoleum,
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:48 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
grave=pyramid
grave=mausoleum
grave=tumulus
grave=dolmen
My (admittedly shallow) understanding was that there was some debate
about whether all tumuluses and dolmens were in fact tombs. This is an
instance
2011/2/1 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:48 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
My (admittedly shallow) understanding was that there was some debate
about whether all tumuluses and dolmens were in fact tombs. This is an
instance where I think a flatter structure might be
On 01/02/11 12:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2011/2/1 Chris Hillo...@raggedred.net:
What do you say about the wording? Would tomb or grave be suited better?
A grave tends to be a hole dug in the ground to bury one or more bodies, a
tomb is more of a structure, so they are not mutually
2011/2/1 Chris Hill o...@raggedred.net:
On 01/02/11 12:57, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2011/2/1 Chris Hillo...@raggedred.net:
Many tumuli do have multiple graves in them. Sometimes these are small
stone-lined burials known as cists (kists) sometimes simply a pot containing
cremated remains
