[talk-au] First Nations flags?

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Dec 17 08:30:35 UTC 2021


There are quite a few Australian flags ... some not 'official'.

I was aware of this 'one', but not that it is the only flag in the world 
for a river?

http://www.murrayriver.com.au/about-the-murray/murray-river-flag/


The inuit also have some flags (6?)

https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ca_inuit.html


On 17/12/21 9:19 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Thanks everyone for your thoughts!
>
> As I said, I flicked an e-mail to the PM & C Department but so far, 
> not even an acknowledgement, let alone an answer :-(
>
> I'll give that another week or so till the New Year! & try a different 
> address.
>
> In the meantime, I'll change the wiki to =indigenous.
>
> It would surprise me though, if Oz is the only country that has this 
> issue?
>
> Stevea, what do you have up there? Are there Apache & Navajo or any 
> other First Peoples flags?
>
> Thanks
>
> Graeme
>
>
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2021 at 19:50, Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com 
> <mailto:phil at wyatt-family.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Graeme,
>
>     My feeling is these two flags should be changed to
>     |flag:type=indigenous |on the wiki rather than national given what
>     has been found during this discussion.
>
>     I am also not confident in changing the wiki but I think there is
>     consensus for the change
>
>     Any good wiki editors out there?
>
>     Cheers - Phil
>
>     ||
>
>     *From:*Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com
>     <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>>
>     *Sent:* Monday, 13 December 2021 1:53 PM
>     *To:* Andrew Davidson <theswavu at gmail.com
>     <mailto:theswavu at gmail.com>>; OSM-Au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org
>     <mailto:talk-au at openstreetmap.org>>
>     *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?
>
>
>     On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 08:34, Graeme Fitzpatrick
>     <graemefitz1 at gmail.com <mailto:graemefitz1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I'll update the Oz Guidelines to include this info.
>
>     & done:
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Australian_Flags
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Australian_Flags>
>
>     Having troubles with the example images of the Aboriginal & Torres
>     Strait Islander flags though?
>
>     They're both listed in Wikipedia
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_flags#Other_flags_recognised_under_the_Flags_Act_1953
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_flags#Other_flags_recognised_under_the_Flags_Act_1953>,
>     but when I tried to link to those images, it appears that they
>     don't really exist?
>
>     Could somebody who actually knows what they're doing around the
>     wiki please have a look at them? :-)
>
>      Thanks
>
>     Graeme
>
>
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