There is a little bit more information http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Historical_Objects/Karteneigenschaften, which belongs to the geschichtskarte-map. I believe in their JOSM preset there is also a section on graves.
regards m On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Martin, I'd seen you weighing in on this on the wiki. > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 3:47 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 2014-09-30 18:04 GMT+02:00 Brad Neuhauser <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I noticed a user adding some individual grave sites of "ordinary" people >>> and am wondering what the recommended tagging is, if any. Here are some >>> things I could find being used (are there others?): >>> >>> - cemetery=grave [1] taginfo: 726 uses >>> >>> >> >> this seems bad tagging to me, because a grave is not a type of cemetery. >> >> >> > I agree--should there be a stronger statement against using this on the > wiki page? (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:landuse%3Dcemetery) > Or maybe send ceyockey a message? > > >> >>> - grave=* [2] taginfo: 17 uses >>> >>> >> >> could be OK, what are the values? >> >> >> > For the little actual usage, it's mostly "grave=yes". There are many > (maybe too many?) additional tagging values on the proposal page I linked > to. > > >> >>> - historic=tomb, tomb=* [3] taginfo: 3087 uses total, of which 1778 >>> are tomb=tombstone (but the wiki notes this is only for "important or >>> well-known persons") >>> >>> >> >> IMHO you could use this for all kind of people, if the tagging makes >> sense at all in this way. Not sure if "tomb" is a word suitable for an >> ordinary grave, I have originally introduced this tag for more significant >> structures like tumuli in etruscan necropoles or rock-cut tombs or >> columbariums or mausoleums or pyramids. "tomb=tombstone" might also be >> strange tagging because a "tombstone" is not a subtype of a tomb, or is it? >> Someone has added this to the tomb page but without further notice on the >> mailing lists. If tomb is a suitable term, I think the value should be >> something like "ordinary_grave" or "grave" and not "tombstone" which is >> really a part of a tomb/grave and not a type of tomb itself. >> >> Tomb sounds a little odd in English for a regular grave. But, clearly > people are searching for something to use. > > > I did some looking via overpass for the three tag schemes I mentioned > above, and even for the first two (cemetery=grave and grave=*) most graves > seem to be well-known figures, with many of them also tagged historic=*. > So, it doesn't help much to get at what to do for the grave of an "ordinary > person". > > The vast majority of grave tags seem to be in Germany. Has there been any > sort of discussion of this on the DE list? > > Thanks, > Brad > > cheers, >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > >
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