[OSM-talk] How to tag: milestones, trigpoints etc

[Andy Robinson (blackadder)]

80n wrote:
>Sent: 10 January 2008 12:57 PM
>To: Gregory
>Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] How to tag: milestones, trigpoints etc
>
>I've been tagging Coal tax Markers as:
>historic=monument
>note=Coal Tax Marker
>
>80n


I've used highway=milepost a fair bit too

Cheers

Andy


>
>On Jan 10, 2008 12:48 PM, Gregory <nomoregrapes at googlemail.com > wrote:
>
>
>	Hi all,
>
>	I was wondering is there an existing way to tag a marker that is
>something for when you don't have a map, but of interest to the sorts or
>people that are OSM mappers.
>
>	The sort of thing I am thinking of:
>	milestones/posts, that say how many miles to the next town
>	trigpoints and various markers, used in accurate mapping
>	london coal posts, used to mark the london boundary where entering
>coal was charged a tax, some have moved or disappeared and it would be good
>to mark where existing ones remain.
>	historical mapping locations such as the one I mention in
>http://www.livingwithdragons.com/2008/01/last-day-of-mapping (4th
>paragraph, 2nd photo)
>
>	If nothing exists I would propose it but I'm not sure what to call
>it. Perhaps historic=marker type= ?
>
>
>
>	--
>	Gregory
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>	http://www.livingwithdragons.com
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