[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Link to openplaques (#2405)

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@tomhughes 
> The 255 character limit appears completely irrelevant to me,

It's relevant to those mapping plaques with inscriptions that are more than 255 characters.  Guess who encountered such a plaque recently...

> and yes I absolutely think that monumental inscriptions don't belong in OpenStreetMap, any more than the text of war and peace does.

A way of encouraging people not to include the tet of inscriptions would be to make openplaques:id a link.  Then the 255-character limit wouldn't matter.  Then the text of the inscription wouldn't be in the OSM database.  This is why we provide wikipedia/wikidata tags (where available)  so that we don't have to provide descriptions of an object.

Or do you mean OSM shouldn't give any hint as to the inscription?  So that tourists cannot determine in advance if the plaque is one they're interested in visiting?  Maybe we shouldn't even identify it as a plaque.  Maybe we shouldn't identify what type of goods a shop sells.  Maybe we shouldn't identify shops as anything other than buildings - if people want to know what the building is they have to physically go and look at it.

Slippery-slope arguments are great fun. :)  More seriously, having information about objects allows plans to be made.  If you're already there and can see for yourself what the object is then you don't need a map.



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