Robert Norris wrote:
Seeing as it's Charles Dicken's 200th Birthday soon, http://www.charlesdickensbirthplace.co.uk/charles-dickens/charles-dickens-200 I thought I should get around to mapping the Blue and other Coloured Plaques in my area of Portsmouth, especially as there's one at his birthplace. However OSM seems a little vague in the best way to tag them, as there's nothing recommended in the wiki AFAIK. TagInfo has some clues of in use methods He's my planned tagging scheme: Basic: historic=memorial landmark=memorial_plaque memorial_plaque:colour=blue|brown|whatever|RGB code? name='name' - just the name of the person / organization the plaque is about eg 'Charles Dickens' Optional Extended Detail: openplaques:id=number description='full inscription text' - without operator information operator='civic society name' | 'local council name' | whatever if known start_date= date plaque was erected if known It would be really good if the only existing map I know of - that uses OSM data - could be expanded to cover the whole of the UK: http://mappa-mercia.org/blue-plaques-map.shtml (Or maybe a bit more information on how the 'blue-plaques.tsv' was created to power that map).
Is there any conflict adding a link to http://openplaques.org/people/413 and the relevant plaque. We might also be able to convert them to OSM ;)
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