[OSM-talk] [RFC] tagging stones in the wild (erratic, balancing, boundary, stone age, artifact)

[Peter Childs]

2009/5/23 Stanislav Brabec <utx at penguin.cz>:
> It seems that mapping features lack stones. In a flat country, any
> bigger stone has its local name and it is an important orientation
> point. But OSM now lacks any classification and rendering of stones. If
> you look at Stonehenge, you see just two points in the mapnik map.
>
> Some of stones use tourism=attraction, some use natural=stone
> (unofficial), some of them use historic=monument or historic=memorial,
> some use amenity=place_of_worship,religion=stone_age_druidic
> or tourism=artwork.
>
> Let's try to classify it. Note that sometimes it is not possible to
> decide the history of the stone and assign correct tag and we have to
> consider it as a generic stone.
>
> I would like to propose a new tag for point (a stone), way (a line of
> stones), and area (area with stones)
>

What about Cairns

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairn

oh and Trig Points

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trig_point

Get some mapping done using one all the better I guess.... (Unless
that causes copyright problems .....)


Peter Childs