Tag:historic=memorial

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Description
Small memorials, usually remembering special persons, people who lost their lives in the wars, past events or missing places. Show/edit corresponding data item.
Rendering in OSM Carto
Memorial-16.svg
Group: historic
Used on these elements
may be used on nodesshould not be used on waysmay be used on areas (and multipolygon relations)should not be used on relations (except multipolygon relations)
Useful combination
See also
Status: approvedPage for proposal

A feature for tagging smaller memorials, usually remembering special persons, people who lost their lives in the wars, past events or missing places.

Memorials can often be found at public greens, cemeteries, town squares and on walls inside or outside buildings.

How to map

Place a node at the centre point, or draw an area around the outline of the construction.

Tags to use in combination

About Wikipedia : It may be more useful to store only certain data on Wikidata. One may follow the Wikidata link and use the feature properties to access more data.

Memorial vs Monument

Not to be confused with a historic=monument. A monument is a memorial object, which is especially large or high enough, (one can go inside, walk on or through it) built to remember, show respect to a person or group of people or to commemorate an event.

Some small structures are called "xxx monument" but should be tagged as historic=memorial. Conversely, some big structures are called "xxx memorial" but should be tagged as historic=monument. The choice of tags in OpenStreetMap should be based on how monumental the feature is.

Photos

Main types of memorials.

See also

  • historic=monument – A memorial object, which is especially large, built to remember, show respect to a person or group of people or to commemorate an event
  • tourism=artwork + artwork_type=statue – Figurative sculpture of people, animals or gods in a durable material
  • Stolpersteine (small Holocaust memorials in Germany and other European countries)

External links

References

  1. [1], war memorial statue/stele/stone, Talk:Key:memorial
  2. [2], Loss of detail with memorial=war_memorial alone?, OpenStreetMap Community