[Tagging] Problems with historic=tomb

[Mateusz Konieczny]

"and? You can add subtags to describe why a certain tomb is notable" - so
what is the point of
defining it as "where are buried important or well-known persons of their
era"?

2014-10-16 10:16 GMT+02:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

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> 2014-10-16 8:33 GMT+02:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at gmail.com>:
>
>> It seems that are serious problems with this tag, is there somebody
>> interested in
>> this topic who want to make a better proposal?
>>
>
>
> I am interested in this tag
>
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>
>>
>> (1) This tag can not be used on the same object as
>> historic=archaeological_site -
>> despite the fact that many archaeological sites are excavated tombs.
>>
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>
> in my mapping of Etruscan necropoles I have often had the case that inside
> one archaeological site there were several tombs. This was mainly the
> reason why I invented the tag. As "tomb" is more specific than
> "archaeological_site" I suggest to use the former in cases where both tags
> could apply.
>
>
>
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>> (2) There is no clear limit for notability, most likely this tag will be
>> in future used to
>> describe any grave.
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>
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> and? You can add subtags to describe why a certain tomb is notable, I am
> using historic:civilization and name for this purpose. In some cases,
> tourism=attraction might be nice as well, or start_date.
>
>
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>> Even now, some people are using it this way. The same
>> happened with natural=tree - originally defined as "lone or significant
>> tree".
>>
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> again, this is not a problem for trees and won't be for tombs.
>
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>> (3) There is no proposed tag to use for ordinary grave, further
>> encuraging using this tag in way other than defined.
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>
>
> there are 110 occurences of historic=grave in the db. . If you'd like
> another tag, you can propose something else, that's how it works. IMHO it
> is not an issue with historic=tomb that there isn't yet an established tag
> for "ordinary graves" (maybe there will never be, depends on the mappers).
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
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