[Tagging] Roman roads - was Re: "part:wikidata=*" tag proposal for multiple elements connected to the same wikidata id

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 13. Sep 2019, at 19:42, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> BTW, a better way for marking Roman roads would be to use historic=roman_road.  It's a
> lapsed proposal, and doesn't show even on lutz's historic places map, but it would allow
> a simple overpass-turbo query and might even let you map them with uMap (going by
> the amount of data in just one Roman road, that's probably impracticable, though).  It's
> been used 2000 times, so you could probably use it without a formal proposal.


yes, or historic=road with historic:civilization=ancient_roman

I’ve used both variants in the past but just had a second thought: is this about roads that are still with the original paving or also applicable to roads that were built by the romans but now have different paving (and maybe are wider, and maybe even left the original position for small parts)?


Cheers Martin