[Tagging] Tagging of historic=monument

Janko Mihelić janjko at gmail.com
Thu May 7 17:35:41 UTC 2015


In Croatia historic=monument is often wrongly used to tag all types of
sculptures. Only a dedicated icon for sculptures (tourism=artwork +
artwork_type=sculpture) can fix that.

Janko

čet, 7. svi 2015. 18:05 Brad Neuhauser <brad.neuhauser at gmail.com> je
napisao:

> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is confusion between monument and memorial ... suggest follow the
>> definitions under the OSM tag historic .. where
>> monument is large ... as in you can walk inside it, over it.
>> memorial is small .. say a plaque
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the distinction is about size, but vague words like
> "small" and "large" used, and the examples given are at the extreme ends
> (building vs. plaque). People need more guidelines to know where the
> dividing line is in the middle. For example, is there a certain height (3m?
> 5m? 10m?) where a tower or pillar changes from memorial to monument? Or a
> certain amount of area (10 sq m? 25? 100?) something covers to change from
> memorial to monument?
>
> By way of example, on the historic=memorial page, there is a photo of a
> stone cross over 5m tall which could certainly fit the way monument is
> defined on that page "An object, especially large and made of stone, built
> to remember and show respect to a person or group of people"
>
> I don't especially care where the line is, but if people are concerned
> about mistagging then this should be clarified.
>
> Thanks, Brad
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