Talk:Tag:memorial=plaque
Road plaques
Say at the beginning of each rural road there is a granite plaque:
Nebbelsham Valley Road Length: 26.765 km. Total Cost: $66,555,444.33 Authority: Platzworth County Road Bureau Designer: Plifwitz Surveying Co. Contractor: Nurdsburd Engineering Inc. Construction Period: 2016/1 through 2019/6
How to tag? Jidanni (talk) 05:51, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
- That sounds more like an information=board --Pbb (talk) 23:28, 28 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks but no, it is commemorating the (re)building of the road. Not showing any thing tourists or residents need to know. Also it is etched in granite. More of a dedication plaque. Jidanni (talk) 02:28, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
Multilingual inscriptions
Is there an guidance on how inscriptions in multiple languages should be tagged?
Going by other keys, something like the following seems sane:
- inscription=full inscription incorporating all languages
- inscription:xx¹=* inscription in language 1
- inscription:xx²=* inscription in language 2
- inscription:xx³=* inscription in language 3
(where xxn is the relevant 2-letter language code. e.g. en, fr, ga, es, etc)
Thoughts?
--Dónal (talk) 15:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- I think it is a good ideal for bilingual countries of minority (language) groups commemorating their heritage. B-unicycling (talk) 15:57, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- It may already be an established practice per taginfo searches. inscription:de,inscription:en, inscription:es, inscription:fr, inscription:ga --Dónal (talk) 16:05, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
inscription=* preferred over memorial:text=*?
As of Dec 2020, there are 17,740 uses of memorial:text=*taginfo vs 72,387 uses of inscription=*taginfo.
Should memorial:text=* be flagged as no longer desirable on the memorial=plaque page?
--Dónal (talk) 15:52, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- I agree. inscription=* is specifically defined as "used for the text of inscriptions on buildings, memorials,...". This page also has flagged memorial:text=* as a tagging mistake. BubbleGuppies (talk) 02:03, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
Horizontal surface
"or other vertical surface"
What if it's a horizontal stone built into the floor? Brightj (talk) 14:45, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
I added memorial=pavement_plaque to Tag:historic=memorial because it had some use already, but then I was messaged and they recommended not using that tag and instead using memorial=plaque with support=ground => for a plaque on pavement
"Maybe this tag has 61 uses but that doesn’t mean they’re good !"