[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Historic

[Peter Neale]

>That could also be an option, but would that stop them rendering as current military features?
One could argue that, if they are no longer military featuers, they should not be tagged as mililtary features.  "historic=battlefield" does this and we are probably not mapping any current / modern / non-historic battlefields, so ther is not any real conflict.  My problem with the whole key of  "historic=" is that some other objects, such as memorials, houses, dairies.... might be historic, but might not.  So I feel that we should tag the identity and main characteristics of an object and then use "historic=yes" to indicate that it is historic, but not current (If that is the case).
In the case of your historic military features, I would assume (I do not run a renderer) that the renderer could (fairly easily ?) have one symbol for a current object and another for an historic one (perhaps the same symbol, but in a different colour?)
My point is that beíng historic is an attribute of an object that IS something else (battlefield, memorial, house, dairy...).  "historic" is an adjective, not a noun. 
Regards,Peter(PeterPan99)

    On Wednesday, 12 October 2022 at 03:36:32 BST, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:  
 
 

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 23:28, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

 
Maybe there would be value in deapproving historic=battlefield

I would love to be able to move the vast majority of military= to historic=military, as they are no longer military installations.
Yes, they certainly were, but they aren't any more.
 
On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 at 00:07, Peter Neale via Tagging <tagging at openstreetmap.org> wrote:

Many ruins and memorials are "of historic interest" it is true, but that could be tagged as a property ("historic=yes") of the object "man_made=<object_name>" .

That could also be an option, but would that stop them rendering as current military features?
Thanks
Graeme
  
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