[Tagging] Hill figures

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 23:15:02 UTC 2019


Not all of them are on hills.

Marree Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man

Possibly  artwork=geoglyph ???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoglyph**

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On 4/9/19 8:49 am, Andy Mabbett wrote:
> In the UK, hill figures include:
>
> * The Cerne Abbas Giant [1], [2], [3]
> * The Fovant badges [4], [5], [6]
> * RNLI Dunkirk Memorial at Margate [7], [8]
> * Osmington White Horse [9], [10], [11]]
>
> and others exist elsewhere [12]. As can be seen from my examples,
> these usually significant landmarks are often not rendered on the map
> - the exception in my examples is at Osmington.
>
> Some cover areas (e.g. Osmington, which is why it renders), some are
> "tramlines" (Cerne Abbas), and some (the RNLI memorial) are single
> lines.
>
> I propose we tag the latter two types as, say, artwork=hill_figure,
> and request that such items be rendered at higher zoom levels.
>
> What alternative approaches are available?
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerne_Abbas_Giant
>
> [2] https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.813611&mlon=-2.474722&zoom=15#map=15/50.8136/-2.4747
>
> [3] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/675453847 (part)
>
> [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovant_Badges
>
> [5] https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.0534&mlon=-1.9783&zoom=15#map=15/51.0534/-1.9783
>
> [6] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/136177861 (single badge)
>
> [7] https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/51.38736/1.37969
>
> [8] https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/9995162
>
> [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmington_White_Horse
>
> [10] https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.65741&mlon=-2.40438&zoom=11#map=17/50.65741/-2.40438
>
> [11] https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/120665846#map=18/50.65788/-2.40433
>
> [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_figure
>
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