[Tagging] pavement placed plaque

[ael]

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 06:02:50PM +0000, Dave F via Tagging wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've a carved stone plaque(?) that's fixed flush into the pavement. it's to
> indicate the start/finish point of a long distance walk.
> https://whatsdavedoing.com/cotswold-way-guide/#start
> 
> Two questions:
> 
> 1 Is plaque the best name? Our Wiki quotes Wikipedia as it being vertical,
> but that seems a bit restrictive to me.
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:memorial%3Dplaque
 
 It seems to be a sort of waymark to me. As far as I can see, we don't
 have a generic tag for waymarks, although there are lots of special
 cases like milestons. Perhaps we should have a waymark tag with subtags
 for material and orientation?

 ael