[Tagging] RFC historic=tomb and tomb=* tags, WAS Re: RFC: tomb key

[Paul Allen]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 15:34, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Thanks for your clarification of terms. So a tumulus would contain several
> burial chambers but they could not be called graves.
>

I think most tumuli contain only one burial chamber.  They're basically
grand structures for somebody like a dead king.  If you were trying to
describe one to somebody you might say "It's like a grave but with a hill
on top" but you wouldn't normally call one a grave.  See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumulus#/media/File:Sulm_valley_tumulus.jpg

>
>  Could a sepulchre be seen a subclass of tomb or vice versa?
>

Looking at the wikipedia article on tomb, it encompasses a lot of types
including sepulchres and some of your values.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb

And then there are catacombs.  Paris has an extensive set of them.
I think those are best left for another time.

-- 
Paul
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/attachments/20210226/406bc774/attachment.htm>