Having civilization as a subkey to historic is a good suggestion. -------Original Email------- Subject :Re: [Tagging] new key civilization From :mailto:[email protected] Date :Tue Jan 11 19:35:13 America/Chicago 2011
For clarity, could these be subtags of historic? e.g. historic=ruins historic:civilization=roman historic:period=aurelia That way we can have more descriptive tags without worrying about conflicts with non-historic meanings. On Jan 11, 2011, at 4:35 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer wrote: > 2011/1/11 John F. Eldredge <[email protected]>: >> Perhaps one could have separate tags for civilization and era. After all, >> many of these civilizations overlapped to some degree, timewise, while being >> in different parts of the world. In some cases, the different civilizations >> traded with each other (for example, the Roman and Chinese civilizations >> traded with each other, through intermediaries). > > > yes, era is not what I am looking for. I used to tag the time > component (in rare cases) with the key "period", e.g. period=aurelian > for one of the city walls of Rome: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelian_Wall. > > cheers, > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging -- John F. Eldredge -- [email protected] "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
