<html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Robert Norris <rw_norris@hotmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif"><br /><br />Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon,<br /><a href="http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200">http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200</a><br /><br />I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in my area of Portsmouth, especially as there's one at his birthplace.<br /><br />However OSM seems a little vague in the best way to tag them, as there's nothing recommended in the wiki AFAIK.<br /><br />TagInfo has some clues of in use methods<br /><br />He's my planned tagging scheme:<br /><br />Basic:<br /><br />historic=memorial<br />landmark=memorial_plaque<br />memorial_plaque:colour=blue|brown|whatever|RGB code?<br />name='name' - just the name of the person / organization the plaque is about eg 'Charles Dickens' <br /><br />Optional Extended Detail:<br /><br
/>openplaques:id=number<br />description='full inscription text' - without operator information<br />operator='civic society name' | 'local council name' | whatever if known<br />start_date= date plaque was erected if known<br /><br />It would be really good if the only existing map I know of - that uses OSM data - could be expanded to cover the whole of the UK:<br /><br /><a href="http://mappa-mercia.org/blue-plaques-map.shtml">http://mappa-mercia.org/blue-plaques-map.shtml</a><br /><br />(Or maybe a bit more information on how the 'blue-plaques.tsv' was created to power that map).<br /><br /><br /><br />Be Seeing You - Rob.<br />If at first you don't succeed,<br />then skydiving isn't for you.<br /><br /> <br /><hr /><br />Talk-GB mailing list<br />Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div<br clear="all">I have stated to map the 60ish plaques
(mostly blue) in Hull and update the openplaques site too. I wrote a blog about it earlier this month <a href="http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2012/01/plaques-blue-or-not.html">http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2012/01/plaques-blue-or-not.html</a> . It seems there is a plaque to Dickens here too, though I haven't checked it out yet. I'm creating a small-scale tourism site including blue plaques and other memorials such statues. <br>
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I use historic=memorial, memorial=blue_plaque, description=summary, openplaques:id=* I will happily change if there is a consensus, but the blog and comments show some issues. Many a wiki page would help discuss the issue (now I feel dirty).<br>
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Cheers, Chris<br>
Cheers, Chris<br>
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