Robert Norris <[email protected]> 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). Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. _____________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb I have stated to map the 60ish plaques (mostly blue) in Hull and update the openplaques site too. I wrote a blog about it earlier this month http://chris-osm.blogspot.com/2012/01/plaques-blue-or-not.html . It seems there is a plaque to Dickens here too, though I haven't checked it out yet. I'm creating a small-scale tourism site including blue plaques and other memorials such statues. I use historic=memorial, memorial=blue_plaque, description=summary, openplaques:id=* I will happily change if there is a consensus, but the blog and comments show some issues. Many a wiki page would help discuss the issue (now I feel dirty). Cheers, Chris Cheers, Chris User chillly Blog http://chris-osm.blogspot.com
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