[Tagging] Many historic=wayside_cross are not historic

[Volker Schmidt]

Italy is very religious (roman catholic).
Just in the Veneto region there are 2045 nodes + 532 polygons tagged as
wayside crosses or shrines.
That includes everything from a homemade little altar on the fence of a
private home to a minute chapel-like shrine on a minor road crossing that
most likely sits on top  of a Roman shrine for the local water goddess.

My real question is: Am I correct that this is the accepted tagging after
all, and that's it?


On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 23:46, Paul Allen <pla16021 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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