On 20/02/2018 07:40, joost schouppe wrote:
Some of the most used historical tags are for things that are just
old, not necessarily disused or with another use than the original
one. Wayside cross and shrine, monuments, memorials, castles etc. It
just seems to signify a special relationship with history, not much
more than that.
...
As an aside, I did go through the usage of "historic" in the UK and
Ireland, and it's a bit of a hodge-podge between "things that were once
something but there's nothing there now" (effectively used as a a
lifecycle tag), "things that are still something" (e.g. memorial), and
"things that are still something, but are important because of what they
were" (castle etc.). I ended up with a list of things to treat as
buildings, things to treat as "almost buildings", things that probably
aren't buildings and some specific other checks (e.g. "chimney"):
https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style/blob/master/style.lua#L1509
Essentially, it's a complete mess. I was glad that I was able to do
something useful with e.g.
https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=52.657347&lon=-7.12672
- you can find a few grains of wheat in among the chaff but most of
what's in there is (like "hollow_way") a bit too idosyncratic to be even
thinking about creating a regular wiki page for.
I still haven't heard of a procedure to vote on tag A over tag B, so
I've invented my own. You can vote here:
https://framadate.org/ApOlIj5ePZvrTjz8
Misses a "none of the above" option.
Best Regards,
Andy
_______________________________________________
Tagging mailing list
Tagging@openstreetmap.org
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
