Talk:Key:aerial
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Deprecation
Unresolved 1. This deprecation is NOT documented on the page linked by the template. So I don't know why and by whom it has been deprecated.
2. The recommended replacement tagging (man_made:survey_point=* mentions absolutely nothing about aerial markers, or whether a point can be seen/identified from above. ITineris (talk) 08:15, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hi, I originally requested that this page be deleted because it had no content. It just redirected to a different page which did not mention the tag at all.
- So, if you know the meaning of this tag then perhaps you could document it on this page?
- --Kylenz 23:00, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- Oh I understand now, I just looked at the page history... I think "deprecated" is definitely wrong, at the very least we should change it to "in use". Then if someone has time, they can write a bit of documentation. --Kylenz 10:23, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
- Hello. As for the "meaning of this tag", I recently wrote the following comment for this changeset
- The tag aerial=yes (now deprecated on the wiki) was originally used for survey points that have a marker visible from the air. In the case of these survey points near Yellowknife, Canada, the marker is a giant white X painted on the ground, and the survey marker is at the intersection of the X. This serves the purpose of making it easy to align photographs that have been taken from an airplane with a known point on the ground (accurate to a few centimeters). This is very useful for aligning "Bing Aerial Imagery", or "ESRI World Imagery", and I don't know why it was marked as "deprecated" in the wiki without having replacement tagging.
- I'm not sure if the above description should be revised a bit and turned into the description for this tag, or if different tagging standard would be preferred? --Adam Dunn (talk) 16:48, 3 March 2024 (UTC)