Am Mi., 2. Okt. 2019 um 13:33 Uhr schrieb Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com>:
> NO. NO, NO, NO, NO, NO. That's how we end up with bad tags. Like > highway=milestone. > Outside of OSM, a milestone is a stone with a distance in miles marked > upon it. Outside > of OSM, this is a milestone: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Milestone@Penrhosgarnedd_2.jpg > It's made of stone and the distances are in miles. > this is also a milestone in OSM: historic=milestone https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dmilestone FWIW, in German these things are called "Meilenstein" (=milestone), although we do not measure in miles (anymore) and regardless of the units used on the stone. While there are also "Kilometerstein" (kilometerstone) and "Stationszeichen" (road marker), and "Meilensäule" (mile-column), and "Stundenstein", "Distanzsäule" (distance column), "Ganzmeilenobelisk" (whole mile obelisk), etc.etc.. The typical milestones in Germany can be further classified as Roman Milestone, Prussian Milestone, Berlin Milestone, Milestones of the various smaller German (ex-)countries Here's a summary page (in German): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distanzstein I am not sure we would want main tags for all these, would we? I agree a tag like "distance marker" would have been more neutral, but I have never had problems with calling something a "milestone" which actually uses kilometers as units, or which wasn't made out of stone. Cheers, Martin
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