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I presume we are predominantly talking about decorative signs, usually
located on a village green or close to the village centre.
Although man_made=village_sign has about 20 times the usage, tourism=village_sign (35ish uses) might capture the purpose better
for the decorative ones. These latter are concentrated in Suffolk & Kent, suspect that I copied the tags for the <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/5536182334/history" target="_blank">West Hallam</a> one (<a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/432332" target="_blank">Geograph</a>) having noted how they were mapped in Suffolk. Oddly man_made=village_sign is also distinctly local with over 5/6ths located in Norfolk, and most last touched by a single user. In this case I don't think absolute numbers indicate a general consensus.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I think the traffic_sign tags pertain more to places where urban limits reflect changes in maximum speeds (France, Poland) or other jurisdictional limits (friends who had a drunken argument in Key West were run to the city limits by the sheriff). I think it's relatively uncommon for these to be one and the same in the UK, although I can think of one sign which exactly matches this premise, at <a href="https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5219453">Pinkneys Green</a>, Berkshire. In the past Pinkneys Drive linked two national speed limit A-roads, and I'm not sure there was originally a limit through the hamlet. Even after the A423 was replaced by a dual carriageway it was a useful cut-through to the A308 and there was definitely an issue with speeding, much reduced as the 40 limit on the A308 was moved out towards the Golden Ball.</div><div><br></div><div>Jerry<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 2 Jan 2022 at 12:41, John Aldridge <<a href="mailto:jpsa@cantab.net" target="_blank">jpsa@cantab.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Village signs seem to be only patchily tagged, so I'm considering <br>
filling in a few round here. Before I do, though, I wanted to ask <br>
whether there was a consensus tagging schema (or whether we could agree <br>
one if not)...<br>
<br>
<br>
I've found quite a few tagged with<br>
man_made=village_sign<br>
though this value is not listed in<br>
<a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:man%20made?uselang=en" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:man%20made?uselang=en</a><br>
<br>
Many have<br>
name=*<br>
which seems reasonable, though I do slightly worry that it might end up <br>
with villages being labelled on the map with their name several times!<br>
<br>
Some also have<br>
tourism=artwork<br>
though perhaps this is a bodge to get something to render on the default <br>
map? See e.g. <a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6341816268" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6341816268</a><br>
<br>
There are also a selection of other tags<br>
colour=*<br>
material=* (typically "wood" or "metal")<br>
description=*<br>
and probably others, I haven't done an exhaustive search.<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Cheers,<br>
John<br>
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