Thanks! One of the wiki examples (a rubbing from a tablet from Takasaki) is from my area, and exactly what I was thinking of.
The example image I saw on OSM was of a pole or something, but the Wikipedia was much more broad. There like a hundred or more of those in my town alone, so now I can map them. Javbw > On Oct 17, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Lionel Giard <lionel.gi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would use memorial=stele (as it looks like a stele to me). If you go on > wikipedia it looks like some of the "usual" stele : > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stele . > >> Le mer. 17 oct. 2018 à 11:22, John Willis <jo...@mac.com> a écrit : >> How would I map this object? >> https://www.machigururi.com/spot_detail.php?id=3762 >> >> It is a stone tablet memorializing when a small levee failed and washed away >> part of a hamlet. This is in the park built on top of the levee repair. >> >> >> these kinds of stone tablets - always a freestanding carved or etched stone >> (not a plaque attached to a rock), and usually between 50cm and 2m in >> height, are the most common form of memorial object in Japan (very tall, >> thin, cut stone tablets anchored in the ground, covered with carved letters >> - not a memorial=stone). this example is a more modern version, with very >> little text. older ones are covered with text. though it looks like a >> headstone or a grave, this is not a common shape for a grave marker in Japan >> - but for memorial tablets. >> >> interestingly, the sub-tag of historic=memorial, memorial=*, has a lot of >> suggested values in iD, including memorial - so memorial=memorial is a >> commonly tagged value (295 uses)! >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:memorial >> >> to me, this is a tablet (20 uses), but if this object is better defined by >> another value, I would be happy to use it. >> >> Javbw >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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