On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 22:33, Volker Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am sure someone has made this observation before me: > We rehash this frequently. :) Many historic=wayside_cross and historic=wayside_shrine are not historic > objects in the sense of the definition of the wiki page Historic > <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historic> which reads: > "The historic <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:historic>=* key is > used to identify features that are of historic interest" > That depends how you define "historic interest." We have 130k "historic" wayside crosses and 80k "historic" wayside shrines > in the database. > Many of these are "mine" and many of these are certainly not of any > historical interest, they are often not even old. But some few certainly > are historic. > The roadside shrines commemorating accidents are historic. That accident may have happened long ago and the memorial erected yesterday. Or the accident may have happened recently. Such shrines act as a form of plaque saying "this happened here on this date." The ones that do not commemorate an accident or other historic event are merely open-air places of worship. The equivalent of a chapel of ease without the building. However, if they were on a historic pilgrimage route, then they may count as historic, although that is debatable. -- Paul
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