<div dir="ltr"><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">I have tagged a variety of well known art sites in Kakadu.<br></blockquote><div>I have tagged them as historic=archeological site, documented <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Darchaeological_site">here</a> and that is clearly approriate.</div><div>Also tagged as tourism=artwork documented <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism=artwork">here</a> and I believe this to be appropriate as they constitute public art with touristic significance - you travel as a tourist to this area and a major drawcard is the rock art. They are in the public space.</div><div><br></div><div>The issue about the sacred-ness -it is not the job of OSM to make this call. If you think an item is too private to map (perhaps such as a farmers internal road network) then don't map it. Tthis is the mappers call.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't understand the discussion about rock shelters. They are a creation of nature and happen everywhere. Who cares whether you cook in them or merely seek shelter from the weather. I would suggest creating rock art takes more than a day and therefore they were all cooking sites.</div><div><br></div><div>Ancient art in its pure manifestation is of historic significance as well as fascinating to many people.</div><div><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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> Are you only tagging those sites that are open & already advertised as<br>
> tourism sites?<br>
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> I think that would be the safest way of doing it, because they are<br>
> considered sacred sites, so we should be taking care to not show the<br>
> location of things that the local peoples may not want shown?<br>
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The ones I've seen mapped so far are well signposted and marked out, widely<br>
accepted as public knowledge.<br>
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