[Tagging] How to tag a street plaque?

[Rafael Avila Coya]

I am very open to another name, if you suggest one that discourages even 
more the possibility of people mapping all street signs, if we think 
it's not a good idea of course.

You can map all sidewalks as footways in fact, but this is discouraged, 
and people are suggested to used sidewalk=* instead, unless the sidewalk 
is quite or completely an independent path.

Martin has proposed man_made=street_sign, that is good to me, but can be 
used to map all street signs.

Cheers,

Rafael.

O 18/01/21 ás 10:26, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging escribiu:
> With tag such as information=street_plaque some people WILL use it
> for all street plaques, like it happened with natural=tree
> 
> If you want to restrict to only some then a better tag name is needed.
> 
> Jan 18, 2021, 10:01 by ravilacoya at gmail.com:
> 
>     My opinion is that
> 
>     information=street_plaque + inscription=* is the best suggested option,
> 
>     as those plaques main purpose is to inform people on the name of the
>     street, and the rest of the information is not as important. They
>     are not a memorial in themselves, but just additional information
>     about the biography of the person named in the street. In fact, if
>     we consider that a memorial, then all streets with the name of a
>     person would all be a memorial, wouldn't they?
> 
>     My only doubt is that information=street_plaque could be used to map
>     all street plaques we find, and I don't really know if it would be
>     wise to populate the map with millions of street plaque nodes,
>     unless we suggest to use them only in the cases António is asking about.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Rafael.
> 
> 
>     O 18/01/21 ás 03:53, António Madeira escribiu:
> 
>         They are information plaques, to signal street names. Every
>         city, town and village has them.
>         There can be some of them with centuries old or so and
>         considered touristic, but that's not what they were made for.
> 
>         I would prefer something more specific, like
>         information=street_plaque + inscription=* but I'm surprised
>         there's nothing already for this.
> 
> 
>         Às 23:45 de 17/01/2021, Graeme Fitzpatrick escreveu:
> 
> 
> 
>             On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 at 12:40, António Madeira
>             <antoniomadeira at gmx.com <mailto:antoniomadeira at gmx.com>> wrote:
> 
>             Normally, they just have the name of the street, but in the
>             cases
>             where the name is the name of a person, is common to have other
>             relevant informations, like you can see in the pictures and in
>             Stefan's example.
>             They're mostly plaques in a wall, but they can also be detached,
>             when there's no place to attach them to.
> 
>             I found this undocumented tag:
>             https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/information=plaque#overview
> 
>             It could be an option.
> 
> 
>             That could work.
> 
>             Looks like they're usually associated with tourism=information
>             https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/12vb
> 
>             Are your plaques intended for tourists, or residents?
> 
>             Thanks
> 
>             Graeme
> 
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