<div dir="ltr">just my 2 cents:<br>in some parts of the world it wouldn't be a cross, but something else (in most of middle-east, in the non-western countries...)<div><br>memorial=roadside_memorial<br>memorial:type=cross/plaque/stone...<br>memorial:reason=car_crash/whatever...<br><br><br><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno lun 12 giu 2023 alle ore 08:13 Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <<a href="mailto:tagging@openstreetmap.org">tagging@openstreetmap.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>In Poland many of them are small crosses without any text or description<br></div><div dir="auto">so it is not entirely obvious why they were placed (though you can guess <br></div><div dir="auto">quite reliably).<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 11, 2023, 14:31 by <a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de" target="_blank">annekadistel@web.de</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><p>I would think that they are still memorials, if they commemorate
an accident or suicide.<br></p><p>I'm not aware of terribly many use cases for man_made=cross,
maybe at open air church service locations or along stations of
the cross.<br></p><p>Food for thought, anyway.<br></p><p>Anne<br></p><div>On 11/06/2023 10:29, Mateusz Konieczny
via Tagging wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I typically tagged such crosses as man_made=cross<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">historic=memorial memorial=cross man_made=cross ?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 11, 2023, 02:27 by <a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">annekadistel@web.de</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(147,163,184);padding-left:10px;margin-left:5px"><div>A historic=wayside_cross does not mark the spot; it is not
left in a<br></div><div>location where someone is buried or died. It is a way to
make sure the<br></div><div>soul of the deceased gets into heaven easier by having
passers by pray<br></div><div>for the soul. You don't have to believe in it, but that's
what people<br></div><div>believed back then (and maybe some still do).<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">note that it is not the only reason for placing
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