memorial=anchor does not make sense.

Typical anchor of that type is typically just
a historic anchor used as a decoration,
not a memorial or artwork.

historic=anchor seems perfectly fine to me
8 Sep 2020, 15:34 by [email protected]:

> This is getting very metaphysical, and tags have been invented to be as 
> practical as possible for the mapper [1]. If someone sees an old anchor on 
> the ground, one of the first things that's going to pop into their mind is 
> historic=anchor.  That has happened 40 times, separately by several mappers 
> all over the world (including me). I just wanted to document this tagging 
> because it made sense to me.
>
> Historic=memorial + memorial=anchor has been used 20 times, but my tagging 
> instinct said that maybe it's better to have a use case for anchors that are 
> not memorials. If people think memorial=anchor is better, that's ok with me. 
> But i'm not ok with creating a complicated ontology with tourism=artwork 
> because no one will naturally come to that tag while on the field. Flowerbeds 
> and fountains are also made just to be nice, but it's not tagged as artwork, 
> because it doesn't look like artwork, and doesn't quack like artwork.
>
> Janko
>
> [1] - > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging
>
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