[talk-au] Aboriginal art sites

Gavin Scott gavincscott at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 12:33:52 UTC 2019


I don't think site_type = cave_painting is correct as aboriginal art is not
usually in cave.
Aboriginal art is made in all sorts of places - under rock overhangs (where
it is protected from the weather), but can also be on rock faces with no
overhang. Sometimes it is in caves.
Gavin


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> So I think,
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> an engraving with no paint => site_type:petroglyph
> a rock art with no engraving => site_type:cave_painting
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> with site_type:parietal_art being a valid less specific tag for both.
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> I agree that tourism=artwork doesn't seem right, given they were not
> created for tourism in the first place, and not necessarily as artworks
> either!
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> On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 at 11:14, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > Aboriginal rock engravings are tagged;
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> > "historic"="archaeological_site"
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> > site_type"="petroglyph"
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> > What should Aboriginal painted sites be tagged?
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> > "historic"="archaeological_site"
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> > site_type"= ???
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> Rock overhangs (rock shelters) have been quite extensively mistagged in
> Australia as natural=cave_entrance.
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> Are there any objections to re-tagging these overhangs tagged as
> natural=cave_entrance to amenity=shelter + shelter_type=rock_shelter?
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> Of course they would only be re-tagged where we have local knowledge or
> otherwise to verify.
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural=cave_entrance
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dshelter
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:shelter_type
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