[Tagging] Fwd: Documenting historic=anchor to the historic wiki page

[Mateusz Konieczny]

memorial=anchor does not make sense.

Typical anchor of that type is typically just
a historic anchor used as a decoration,
not a memorial or artwork.

historic=anchor seems perfectly fine to me
8 Sep 2020, 15:34 by janjko at gmail.com:

> This is getting very metaphysical, and tags have been invented to be as practical as possible for the mapper [1]. If someone sees an old anchor on the ground, one of the first things that's going to pop into their mind is historic=anchor.  That has happened 40 times, separately by several mappers all over the world (including me). I just wanted to document this tagging because it made sense to me.
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> Historic=memorial + memorial=anchor has been used 20 times, but my tagging instinct said that maybe it's better to have a use case for anchors that are not memorials. If people think memorial=anchor is better, that's ok with me. But i'm not ok with creating a complicated ontology with tourism=artwork because no one will naturally come to that tag while on the field. Flowerbeds and fountains are also made just to be nice, but it's not tagged as artwork, because it doesn't look like artwork, and doesn't quack like artwork.
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> Janko
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> [1] - > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging
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