[Tagging] war_memorial

[John F. Eldredge]

On 10/3/2017 12:26 PM, José G Moya Y. wrote:
> +1.
> But I wonder if memorial=war_memorial was created with a shape in 
> mind, that of large walls with long lists of names on it we see on 
> american movies.
>
> (In Spain, collective memorials are either big plaques, statues or 
> obelisks. The plaques, typical of the Spanish war of 1936-39, are 
> being removed in fulfillment of the Historical Memory Law).
>
> El 3/10/2017 17:16, "Janko Mihelić" <janjko at gmail.com 
> <mailto:janjko at gmail.com>> escribió:
>
>     uto, 3. lis 2017. u 12:19 Martin Koppenhoefer
>     <dieterdreist at gmail.com <mailto:dieterdreist at gmail.com>> napisao je:
>
>
>         There also a "topic" key in small use:
>         https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/topic#values
>         <https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/topic#values> maybe
>         rather than theme it could be "memorial:topic=war"?
>
>
>     Ok, memorial:topic=war.
>
>     Is this thread enough to deprecate war_memorial on the wiki? Or
>     should we first create a new wiki for memorial:topic=*?
>
>     I would also bring up the tag subject:wikidata=*, but I'm afraid
>     the current flames on other threads would spread here :)
>
>     Janko
>
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These other physical types of war memorials (plaques, statues, obelisks) 
are more common in the US than the walls with long lists of names. The 
Vietnam War Memorial is the first one in US history, to my knowledge, to 
list all of the American casualties.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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