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<div>See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_key_names" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_key_names</a><br></div><div>for other similar cases.<br></div><div><br></div><div>historic=wayside_shrine, historic=wayside_cross were intended for tagging old shrines<br></div><div>and old crosses. But introducing them was done without proposing a tagging scheme<br></div><div>for modern crosses and modern shrines. As result tags changed meaning and are used<br></div><div>for any shrine and any cross, including those that are neither historic nor wayside.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For crosses there is also man_made=cross but with lower usage and support.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For shrines noone proposed new tag for shrines that are not qualifying<br></div><div>for amenity=place_of_worship and are modern rather than historic.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dec 7, 2020, 23:30 by voschix@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>I am sure someone has made this observation before me:<br></div><div>Many historic=wayside_cross and historic=wayside_shrine are not historic objects in the sense of the definition of the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wiki page Historic</a> which reads:<br></div><div><div>"The <span class="font" style="font-family:menlo,consolas,"courier new",monospace"><a title="Key:historic" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">historic</a>=*</span> key is used to identify features that are of historic interest"<br></div></div><div>We have 130k "historic" wayside crosses and 80k "historic" wayside shrines in the database.<br></div><div>Many of these are "mine" and many of these are certainly not of any historical interest, they are often not even old. But some few certainly are historic.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Volker<br></div><div>mostly mapping in Italy<br></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div> </body>
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