[Talk-GB] CWGC: worldwide, war graves

[Tony OSM]

Am browsing the CWGC website as I write, looking at my locality.

Clearly landuse=cemetery is the principal tag for the typical CWGC 
cemetery - dedicated to military with rows of the fallen.

There is a proposal for cemetary=sector which appears to have failed.

CWGC is showing in my locality > 20 locations where there are CWGC 
casualties, most are in local cemeteries and graveyards. Quantity of 
graves is from 1 upwards.

Nationality of the interred also may be important - there may be very 
many commonwealth nationalities in one location.

If we generate a tag schema it clearly needs to be applicable to other 
grave organisations - e.g. German War Graves Commission - /Volksbund 
Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge/ in German.

Will we use abbreviation or the full name?

What about a cemetery with multiple organisations graves? (I've seen some)

URL's to the parent site - CWGC - there could be several in one cemetary.


Tony Shield

TonyS999

On 26/04/2020 12:44, Andy Townsend wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How is it suggested to tag "there are commonwealth war graves here"?
>
> At least near me, there's usually a fairly large white on green sign 
> near the entrance, so even if it's not something you'd explicitly go 
> out to map, it's often something that you'd notice.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andy
>
> On 25/04/2020 22:20, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>>
>> On 25/04/2020 22:55, Michael Booth wrote:
>>> This seems to be it:
>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2010-August/010110.html 
>>>
>>>
>>> Found via a search for: site:lists.openstreetmap.org "talk-gb"
>>> "Commonwealth"
>> Thanks for finding that so quickly
>>
>>> Daniel, what is actually being proposed to be added to OSM? Is it a 
>>> list
>>> of CWG cemeteries that could then be checked against the data we 
>>> have in
>>> OSM? I remember seeing a maproulette for cemeteries in Texas, perhaps
>>> something similar could be done to find missing CWG cemeteries.
>> Please see the CWGC and TracesOfWar lists on this page:
>>
>>
>> https://anzacathon.com/data-sources.shtml
>>
>> They simply have the name of the cemetery or monument, the latitude and
>> the longitude
>>
>> CWGC has 20,000 records, TracesOfWar has 120,000 records
>>
>> AWM also has about 14,000 records for places but they are not in the
>> IPFS world yet.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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