<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Greg's comment "Why historic?" interested me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">Thoreau wrote <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwTaTzE7VdWUTDVQWXVwZDExRTg/view?usp=sharing">this paragraph</a> in 1851 about perambulating the bounds. He said the present "split stones" replaced the pile of stones in 1829.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">That's historic enough for me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/329248057">My stone</a> is now tagged (Greg got me interested in alternative tags)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default">description=split stone with chiseled C B inscription</div><div class="gmail_default">format=squared_stone</div><div class="gmail_default">height=3'2"</div><div class="gmail_default">historic=boundary_stone</div><div class="gmail_default">inscription=B C</div><div class="gmail_default">man_made=survey_point</div><div class="gmail_default">material=granite_stone</div><div class="gmail_default">name=Boundary Stone</div><div class="gmail_default">start_date=1829</div><div class="gmail_default">survey:date=1970</div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I guess I should think about wiki data and a photograph.</div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail-m_1411361174942037045gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Alan</font></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Greg Troxel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdt@lexort.com" target="_blank">gdt@lexort.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
"Alan & Ruth Bragg" <<a href="mailto:alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.ruth.bragg@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> One of the Bedford/Concord markers <<a href="https://goo.gl/photos/QN5jRUJ3bgtgoQEt7" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/photos/QN5jRUJ<wbr>3bgtgoQEt7</a>><br>
<span>> bears painted survey dates of 55 and 70.<br>
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> I added this stone<br>
</span>> <<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4783742794#map=16/42.4807/-71.3180" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>node/4783742794#map=16/42.4807<wbr>/-71.3180</a>> to<br>
<span>> "Open Street Map" with tags historic=boundary_stone, inscription="B C",<br>
> source=survey and description=Granite Post<br>
> Alan Bragg<br>
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</span>Why historic? These stones are official markers with current legal<br>
standing. I would tend to man_made=survey_point. (Some current<br>
features have historic value, but these are not merely historic.)<br>
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And if the most recent date is 70, you should hassle your selectmen, but<br>
don't be surprised if you get appointed and have to dig that last report<br>
out of the town vault!<br>
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