[Talk-GB] How to tag Police Memorial Trust (and similar) memorials

[John Sturdy]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andy Mabbett <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> I recently mapped a couple of Police Memorial Trust memorials, for example:
>
>   http://www.policememorial.org.uk/Police_Memorial_Trust/PMT_Local_Memorials/PMT-Swindells-2004/PMT-Swindells-2004.htm
>
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.511667&lon=-1.866628&zoom=18&layers=M
>
>   http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1478159796
>
> with Tag:historic=memorial.
>
> I included the text on each memorial, tagged "text". Would that be
> better tagged "inscription", or with some other tag?

I've used "commemoration" on a couple of memorial benches in my
village, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/1419167468, but
now you mention it, "inscription" sounds more generic, as there might
be inscribed public objects that aren't commemorative.

__John