[Tagging] Many historic=wayside_cross are not historic

[Mateusz Konieczny]

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Counterintuitive_key_names
for other similar cases.

historic=wayside_shrine, historic=wayside_cross were intended for tagging old shrines
and old crosses. But introducing them was done without proposing a tagging scheme
for modern crosses and modern shrines. As result tags changed meaning and are used
for any shrine and any cross, including those that are neither historic nor wayside.

For crosses there is also man_made=cross but with lower usage and support.

For shrines noone proposed new tag for shrines that are not qualifying
for amenity=place_of_worship and are modern rather than historic.

Dec 7, 2020, 23:30 by voschix at gmail.com:

> I am sure someone has made this observation before me:
> 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"
> 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.
>
> Volker
> mostly mapping in Italy
>
>

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