Out of boredom I tried to think up all the non-physical tags currently
in wide spread use:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:historic%3Devent#Why_even_obscure_tags_should_be_documented_if_they_are_likely_to_be_mapped.21
I doubt the list is exhaustive, but these are obviously important
Even if historic=event is removed from the wiki, and even if
historic=battlefield is removed I doubt it will stop people mapping
these locations, they are important to people, and people have already
shown that there are physical places that can be mapped.
In fact the only thing that will be
2011/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com:
Even if historic=event is removed from the wiki, and even if
historic=battlefield is removed I doubt it will stop people mapping
these locations, they are important to people, and people have already
shown that there are physical places that can
On 6 May 2011 00:50, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com:
Even if historic=event is removed from the wiki, and even if
historic=battlefield is removed I doubt it will stop people mapping
these locations, they are important to people,
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
In fact the only thing that will be accomplished by removing
references on the wiki is people will use multiple key/value pairs for
the same type of object because they can't see any other values that are
already
On 6 May 2011 00:59, Pieren pier...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
wrote:
In fact the only thing that will be accomplished by removing
references on the wiki is people will use multiple key/value pairs for
the same type of object because
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, they already do use it:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/historic%3Aevent#values
No, I meant more like historic=pa
I have no idea what it means, but there is 2100 uses...
On 6 May 2011 01:09, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, they already do use it:
http://taginfo.openstreetmap.de/keys/historic%3Aevent#values
No, I meant more like historic=pa
I have no idea what it
2011/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
On 6 May 2011 01:09, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you are in New Zealand, you're unlikely to tag the same thing:
It's being used for a Maori fortress, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81_%28M%C4%81ori%29
That seems
On 6 May 2011 01:34, Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
On 6 May 2011 01:09, Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com wrote:
Unless you are in New Zealand, you're unlikely to tag the same thing:
It's being used for a Maori fortress, see
2011/5/5 Andre Engels andreeng...@gmail.com:
Unless you are in New Zealand, you're unlikely to tag the same thing:
It's being used for a Maori fortress, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C4%81_%28M%C4%81ori%29
IMHO the tag is not very well chosen. Besides that I agree with John
Smith
2011/5/5 Simone Saviolo simone.savi...@gmail.com:
2011/5/5 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com
Aren't we nitpicking? I've tagged remains of Roman cities whose physical
presence is arguable, but nonetheless those are places of historical
interest in that a Roman building or forum was there.
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:26 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
dieterdre...@gmail.comwrote:
Usually you will also find something on the ground, at least if you
dig. Looking at the page for historic=event I can see that most people
are arguing against historic=event and historic=battlefield because
there
2011/5/5 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:26 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com
wrote:
Note that the OP is about historic=event, not battlefield. The edit war
started because JohnSmith documented what you, Martin, suggested in a
previous thread although that
On 6 May 2011 04:15, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
e.g. there is a place in Rome which is said to be the locus where
Julius Cesar was stabbed by Brutus. I find this interesting and I
I hadn't thought about assassinations, but all it took was an
assassination to kick start
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:59 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote:
Personally I think historic=yes isn't a good idea, since you have to
do further digging to be able to classify things, where as stipulating
why it's historic is of much better value.
historic=event needs also further
To stop a beginning of edit war (
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:historicaction=history),
I would like try something new and ask your feedback about the tag
history=event wiki page.
This tag is the result of a former discussion about immaterial historical
2011/5/2 Pieren pier...@gmail.com:
To stop a beginning of edit war
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Map_Features:historicaction=history),
I would like try something new and ask your feedback about the tag
history=event wiki page.
This tag is the result of a former
On 3 May 2011 02:02, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com wrote:
To reduce the danger of edit wars: what about _not_ defining the
events explicitly significant (most of German Wikipedia disputes are
about relevance criteria and I'd rather avoid similar discussions in
OSM if possible). Of
After digging further into this, and with all XAPI servers seemingly
unresponsive I looked toward tagwatch, the following are historic
values of curious note:
yes (5053)
pa (2138)
battlefield (331)
Altstraße (80)
heritage (76)
tumulus (60)
industrial (54)
coat_of_arms (54)
hollow_way (41)
road
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