[Tagging] graves and relations

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

On 23/01/2022 18:06, Peter Elderson wrote:
> A relation is a collection of objects. You would like persons to be
> objects in the geographical database?
I don't see how else to solve the problem of having several names with
potential wikidata entries and limited characters in the inscription
field connected to one object.
> A relation type=person, what would the members be?
It seems to be used or suggested to be used for people's birthplace,
place of death etc, locations of other memorials etc according to the
proposal page
(https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Relation:person_(rewrite))
and use (mostly in Poland apparently).
>
> 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.
>
>     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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