This is going very off topic, sorry for hijacking the thread.

But anyway,

it was a city gate, distroyed in WWI and rebuild as a city gate and a
monument for several thousand missing soldiers. After the tyne cot cemetry,
it's the most important WWI monument of flanders. So it is both, monument
and city gate.
Op 30 jul. 2011 14:23 schreef "M∡rtin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdre...@gmail.com>
het volgende:
> 2011/7/30 Sander Deryckere <sander...@gmail.com>:
>> @Martin: historic=city_gate seems a good tag for city gates indeed, but
the
>> menin gate already has historic=monument, so I'll have to think about it.
>
>
> you could think about removing historic=monument, it doesn't seem
> appropriate for a gate IMHO. See the wiki:
>
> "An object, especially large and made of stone, built to remember and
> show respect to a person or group of people
> Monuments are often built in homage to past or present
> political/military leaders or religious figures / deities"
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dmonument
>
> at least I do not know about memorial "gates". Maybe you are talking
> about an "arch"?
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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