[Tagging] tree shrines

Jesse Crawford jesse at jbcrawford.us
Wed Jul 9 20:19:20 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:52 PM, John Packer <john.packer7 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To clarify, by "these", you mean historic=wayside_cross, correct?
> Or does historic=tree_shrine has the same meaning?
>

I would suspect so - this is consistent with my area as well, where these
features are called "descansos" (a Spanish word) and usually take the form
of crosses in the freeway median/shoulder. The use of descanso is probably
unusual in the non-Southwestern US, so I would concer with
"roadside_memorial" as a tag for these.

That said, I do not know how valuable it is to map them. They are a big
part of the culture in this area and so tend to be both elaborate and
permanent, but in other parts of the US where I have lived they were often
simple and temporary, not useful features for navigation. Their usefulness
likely varies significantly with culture.

Jesse B. Crawford
Student, Information Technology
New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Tech

jcrawford at cs.nmt.edu | jesse at jbcrawford.us
http://cs.nmt.edu/~jcrawford | http://jbcrawford.us
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