Obelisks are also fairly common as grave markers, although you would probably tag those differently than obelisks raised to commemorate some event.
-------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] historic tagging, obelisks >From :mailto:joha...@goteborg.cc Date :Wed Feb 02 13:34:28 America/Chicago 2011 I am on the same page as you Martin, we should tag the obelisks as the prominent features they are. man_made seem to be the most neutral key, but landmark is tempting. I suggested: man_made=column + column=obelisk What I meant was man_made="pointy long massive not natural freestanding thing" +"pointy long thing"=obelisk Other columns/"pointy long freestanding things" is: *egyptian obelisks and other that is inspired by them *the monumental more or less cylindrical columns/victory columns etc. *stele is a general term for inscribed and decorated things some of them is high, some are not. Mostly taller than it is wide acc. to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele *the portugise Padrão *large christian cross-, they probably wont fit in the "pointy long thing" * modern art sculpture, some of it like http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doppels%C3%A4ule_23_70_von_Erich_Hauser-1.jpg _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- j...@jfeldredge.com "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
