<div dir="ltr"><div>On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 23:16, Daniel Capilla <<a href="mailto:dcapillae@gmail.com">dcapillae@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>Thank for your comment. That is correct. I have also used
"historic=yes". It is the most obvious, though not the most
specific.
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Again, I invite you to explain why you think it is not the most specific. Or to</div><div>explain what you mean by "specific" in this context.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><p>A historic building is tagged "historic=building". This is a
specific value for "historic". It could also be tagged as
"building=yes" + "historic=yes". It is correct, but it is not
specific.</p></div></blockquote><div>Most times I have encountered historic=building it was an error whether it was</div><div>specified as historic=building or building=yes + historic=yes. Most buildings</div><div>are not of historic note as buildings. Some have legal protections assigned</div><div>by heritage organizations and are better tagged using heritage=*. Some</div><div>are of note because a famous person was born there but those usually</div><div>have some sort of memorial plaque and historic=memorial is a better</div><div>way of tagging it.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p>This proposal tries to document in the best possible way a value
in use for the key "historic". I think that historic cemeteries
are features with enough entity to have a specific documented
value for "historic". On the "Key:historic" page there are some
well-documented values. [1]</p></div></blockquote><div>I think I've now figured out what you mean by "specific." It seems to mean</div><div>you think it needs its own historic=* value and your rationale appears to be</div><div>because you'd like it that way.</div><div><br></div><div>In contrast to you, I think most values of historic=* are bogus and should</div><div>be deprecated in favour of adding historic=yes where appropriate. There</div><div>are only a couple of objects which truly justify their own historic value</div><div>because they cannot be anything other than historic, such as memorial</div><div>plaques. Most houses are not historic. Most cemeteries are not historic.</div><div>All memorial plaques are historic because they describe something</div><div>noteworthy from the past (noteworthy enough that somebody puts up</div><div>a plaque about it). You cannot have a memorial plaque or monument</div><div>that is not historic.</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>Paul</div><div><br></div></div></div>