<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:52 PM, John Packer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.packer7@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.packer7@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>To clarify, by "these", you mean historic=wayside_cross, correct?<br></div><div>Or does historic=tree_shrine has the same meaning?</div>
</blockquote></div><br>I would suspect so - this is consistent with my area as well, where these features are called "descansos" (a Spanish word) and usually take the form of crosses in the freeway median/shoulder. The use of descanso is probably unusual in the non-Southwestern US, so I would concer with "roadside_memorial" as a tag for these.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That said, I do not know how valuable it is to map them. They are a big part of the culture in this area and so tend to be both elaborate and permanent, but in other parts of the US where I have lived they were often simple and temporary, not useful features for navigation. Their usefulness likely varies significantly with culture.<br>
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