Monument is a large memorial. If you tag a monument with historic=memorial, it's not wrong, but not precise. If it is a statue, add tourism=artwork + artwork_type=sculpture + artist=* + artist:wikidata=* + start_date=* + material=* ....
Janko sub, 11. srp 2015. 13:21 Joachim <nore...@freedom-x.de> je napisao: > 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 >
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