The size: If you can walk in it's a monument. There might be cases where there is clearly enough space for many people but no provisions have been made. Here I would compare to other monuments in city/country.
2015-07-11 13:03 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel@koć.pl>: > Simple question, hard problem: how to recognize (1) memorial from (2) > monument? > > Definitions on Wiki are not clear and I think they need some love to make > them easier to use in practice: > > 1) A feature for tagging smaller memorials, usually remembering special > persons, peoples lost their lives in the wars. > Memorials can be often found at public greens or cemeteries. > > 2) A memorial object, especially large (one can go inside, walk on or > through it) and made of stone, built to remember, show respect to a person > or group of people or to commemorate an event. > Monuments are often built in homage to past or present political / military > leaders or religious figures / deities. > > So what is a deciding factor here: > a) size (all examples of monuments are 15+ m), > b) wartime/all other (however military leaders are sometimes also > causalities of war), > c) unknown and real people / widely known and legendary > d) being the landmark (statue in park is typically much less important and > visible than the same statue in the middle of a square) > > or maybe it's just purely subjective choice? > > It is important for me, because in Warsaw we have a lot of such places and I > like to have some uniformity in tagging across the whole city. > > BTW: memorial can be war_memorial, but it can also be in the form of statue, > stone or any other type at the the same type, so it seems the form and > function are unfortunately mixed here. > > -- > "The train is always on time / The trick is to be ready to put your bags > down" [A. Cohen] > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
