[Tagging] dinosaurs

Anne-Karoline Distel annekadistel at web.de
Sun Oct 16 16:35:16 UTC 2022


There were 4, tagged as dinosaur trackway or dinosaur footprints or
similar. Obviously, even though dinosaurs were quite big, I can't see
them on satellite view, so I just changed the key to description and
added geological=palaeontological_site.

Anne

On 16/10/2022 17:02, Volker Schmidt wrote:
> Do you have a feeling how many "archeologic" sites in OSM are in
> reality palaeontological? I fear this is a frequent error, but
> difficult to spot.
>
> On Sun, 16 Oct 2022, 17:33 Anne-Karoline Distel, <annekadistel at web.de>
> wrote:
>
>     Hello all,
>
>     I'm doing a huge tidy-up amongst the values for "site_type",
>     documented
>     in a diary post:
>     https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/b-unicycling/diary/400151
>
>     I've come across a few dinosaur footprints, but that is not
>     archaeology,
>     because archaeology is about man made structures. Is there a way to
>     implement a warning into the editors not to combine
>     "archaeological_site" with dinosaurs? I will replace the few I found
>     with geological=palaeontological_site
>     (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:geological%3Dpalaeontological_site).
>
>     Maybe this is the wrong mailing list for it...
>
>     Anne
>
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