[Tagging] tree shrines

[Brad Neuhauser]

What Jesse said. :)  Including that they're often relatively temporary.
That might explain why there are so few in the US compared to Europe?

I'd seen this discussion before and thought it was kind of obscure, then
just looked at taginfo and was surprised by how many there are--wow!  I'd
seen many of these small shrines in Japan but didn't know it was such a big
thing in Europe.

45K wayside_cross:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/historic=wayside_cross#map
23K wayside_shrine:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/historic=wayside_shrine#map



On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Jesse Crawford <jesse at jbcrawford.us> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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