[Tagging] Many historic=wayside_cross are not historic

[Paul Allen]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 22:33, Volker Schmidt <voschix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am sure someone has made this observation before me:
>

We rehash this frequently. :)

Many historic=wayside_cross and historic=wayside_shrine are not historic
> objects in the sense of the definition of the wiki page Historic
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic> which reads:
> "The historic <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic>=* key is
> used to identify features that are of historic interest"
>

That depends how you define "historic interest."

We have 130k "historic" wayside crosses and 80k "historic" wayside shrines
> in the database.
> Many of these are "mine" and many of these are certainly not of any
> historical interest, they are often not even old. But some few certainly
> are historic.
>

The roadside shrines commemorating accidents are historic.  That accident
may have happened long ago and the memorial erected yesterday.  Or the
 accident may have happened recently.  Such shrines act as a form of
plaque saying "this happened here on this date."

The ones that do not commemorate an accident or other historic event are
merely open-air places of worship.  The equivalent of a chapel of ease
without the building.  However, if they were on a historic pilgrimage route,
then they may count as historic, although that is debatable.

-- 
Paul
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