[Tagging] Tagging of historic=monument

Marc Gemis marc.gemis at gmail.com
Thu May 7 04:53:30 UTC 2015


They is a "project"+map that shows all those "monuments" with the request
to retag them: http://www.historic.place/themes/monuments/


regards

m.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Matthijs Melissen <info at matthijsmelissen.nl>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Openstreetmap-carto (the default rendering style on openstreetmap.org)
> will soon render objects tagged historic=monument with an icon.
>
> There is currently a large number of objects incorrectly tagged as
> historic=monument.
>
> The definition of historic=monument according to the wiki:
> 'A memorial object, especially large (one can go inside, walk on or
> through it) and made of stone, built to remember, show respect to a
> person or group of people or to commemorate an event'.
>
> Note that this tag should not be used for national heritage buildings
> (called listed buildings in some countries). The word 'monument' does
> not have this meaning in English. Instead, historic=yes, the heritage
> key, or the listed_status key could be used for such buildings:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:listed_status
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage
>
> It would be good to correct as many incorrectly tagged objects as
> possible before the tag is rendered. This map can be helpful for that:
> http://www.historic.place/themes/monuments/map.html
>
> See https://github.com/gravitystorm/openstreetmap-carto/issues/1532
> for the discussion on Github.
>
> -- Matthijs
>
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