[Tagging] tree shrines

[Marc Gemis]

I think the OP meant something like this:

http://xian.smugmug.com/OSM/OSM-2014/20140608-Mol-Geel-vanaf-Sas-VI/i-zmPkm4P/A
or this
http://xian.smugmug.com/OSM/OSM-2014/20140528-Rumst/i-KwGzNXX/A

regards

m


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com>
wrote:

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