Be as pedantic as you please. I'll be happy to tag a cenotaph or three if a consensus ever emerges.
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 7:34 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20-Sep-16 06:30 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > Il giorno 20 set 2016, alle ore 08:59, Steve Doerr < > doerr.step...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > And the word actually *means* 'empty tomb': 'ancient Greek *κενοτάϕιον* < > *κενός* empty [...] + *τάϕος* tomb' (Oxford English Dictionary). > > > > +1, I have added the tomb=cenotaph tag to > the proposal: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/tombs# > Subtagging_types > > > the tag > tomb=cenotaph > > would be like > building=no_building > > makes little sense. > > Cenotaphs are memorials/monuments. Not the place of burial therefore not a > tomb. > A small sample of past use in OSM are; > Node The Cenotaph (59598355) - London, UK > Way The Cenotaph (99953212)' San Antonio, USA > Node (1290835360) - Cenotaph - Montreal, Canada > Node: Cenotaph (3687638609) Hiroshima, Japan > Node: Cenotaph (2434280368) Saskatchewan, Canada > Node: Penang Cenotaph (1726781335) Malaysia > Node: Cenotaph (4011033735) Belfast, Ireland > > > > The meaning of the Greek root ... and the meaning of the present English > are different as happens over time and with translations between languages > (Greek-Latin-English). > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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