[Tagging] graves and relations

[Peter Elderson]

A relation is a collection of objects. You would like persons to be objects
in the geographical database?
A relation type=person, what would the members be?

Op zo 23 jan. 2022 om 18:38 schreef Anne-Karoline Distel <
annekadistel at web.de>

> Hello all,
>
> I understand tomb/ tombstone issue; I was just pointing out that the
> plugin provides continuation to a deprecated tag.
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> To be able to map several people on a tombstone/ memorial, I would think
> that a relation type=memorial would be an option, with as many people as
> needed in it. This would help with World War 1 and 2 (spoken from a
> European perspective) memorials which can have too many names on them to
> fit in the inscription field. It would also make it possible to link
> individuals to their wikidata/ wikipedia. It would also still allow for
> the use of the relation type=person. I think it would be better than
> name=, alt_name=, alt_name2= etc.
>
> It was pointed out to me that it might also be useful for benches with
> little memorial plaques on them.
>
> Does that make sense? It would still only be one node for the tombstone
> or a way for the larger memorial. Is that technically possible?
>
> Anne
>
> On 23/01/2022 00:22, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> > the tomb key is for describing tombs, a tombstone is not a tomb, that’s
> why you shouldn’t use the tag.
> > Everybody can write a Josm-Plugin and suggest any kind of tags, being
> present in a plug-in preset is not an endorsement for a tag.
> > Everybody can also write everything in the wiki, but there are probably
> more eyes on it, and people will revert obvious nonsense hopefully quickly.
> > Cheers Martin
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