[Tagging] Tagging of historic=monument

[Marc Gemis]

sorry I overlooked the same link in Matthijs email.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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