[Talk-GB] RNLI Dunkirk Memorial

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Sep 3 23:24:32 UTC 2019


On 4/9/19 9:16 am, Edward Catmur via Talk-GB wrote:
> The Uffington White Horse is tagged as man_made=geoglyph, which seems 
> apposite and is documented (if underused).

+1. Not all on hills, small .. or historic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marree_Man

>
> Adding a natural=bare_rockĀ  tag to reflect the exposed bedrock 
> underneath (yes, chalk is a rock) would seem acceptable, and would 
> have the definite bonus of getting the shape to render.
>
> Otherwise, a hill figure can be variously a tourist attraction, a 
> memorial, a monument, an archaeological site - it would depend on the 
> specifics of when, by whom and for what purpose it was initially 
> constructed.
>
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, 23:53 Andy Mabbett, <andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk 
> <mailto:andy at pigsonthewing.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 15:01, Jez Nicholson
>     <jez.nicholson at gmail.com <mailto:jez.nicholson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > Not sure that there is proper consensus on how to map
>     > drawn things, like the Cerne Abbas Giant
>
>     I've started a discussion, specifically about hill figures, on the
>     tagging list:
>
>     https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2019-September/047860.html
>
>     -- 
>     Andy Mabbett
>     @pigsonthewing
>     http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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