2011/2/1 Craig Wallace <craig...@fastmail.fm>: > As that Wikipedia article says, its just a particular style/shape of > monument or memorial. > So I think it would be best tagged as historic=monument or > historic=memorial, plus a subtag for obelisk. > Maybe something like monument:style=obelisk ?
This could be a way, but I am not yet convinced. Churches, temples and towers are also monuments, but we don't tag them currently as subtypes of monument. Indeed the tag historic=monument is very vague and therefor not very useful IMHO. > There's quite a few other monument/memorial styles that would be useful to > tag, eg statue, fountain, spire etc. Can you expand on the difference between memorial and monument? AFAIK a monument states that an object is "monumental" = big, bigger then human scale. Memorial is instead referring to a structure errected to remind about someone/something. In OSM they are exclusive (you cannot use both). I have the feeling that these 2 tags are broken by design, but they are very useful, because beeing so generic you can use them for lots of stuff ;-) Maybe it would be better to use them as flags? Describe the features with some tags, and add monument=yes (for monumental stuff) or memorial=yes (for stuff to remind about something). It could also be memorial=first_world_war (or memorial:topic=first_world_war) cheers, Martin _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
