Talk:Tag:memorial=blue plaque

Blue plaque vs plaque?

And what's the difference with memorial=plaque? Is it a plaque? - Yes. Is it commemorative? - Yes again. So you must use memorial=plaque. Any details should be added through additional tags to historic=memorial + memorial=plaque (shape, material, location, colour, owner, register, whatever)

If you want blue plaque, you can add colour=blue. Or you will tag green plaque (google says some of "blue" plaque can be green) as memorial=green_plaque? VlIvYur (talk) 22:11, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Could some British editors expand on the differences between a memorial=blue_plaque and a memorial=plaque? --Jarek Piórkowski (talk) 13:23, 22 May 2019 (UTC)

blue plaques are a type of plaque, so I would have thought this should be a subtag, with historic=memorial + memorial=plaque as a higher level classification. But maybe people felt that was a level too deep in sub-tagging.

Back in 2014 when I first discussed this at Talk:Mappa Mercia/Blue Plaques in Birmingham I noticed the tag scheme=Blue Plaques which followed that idea. At the time I noted this example node, which I see was edited by you Jarek! but also it has since been swapped to use this memorial=blue_plaque tag, and I think scheme=Blue Plaques is at zero. All converted I guess.

-- Harry Wood (talk) 01:01, 27 December 2019 (UTC)

As Harry says, a 'blue plaque' is specifically one that is managed by English Heritage and is (99% of them) located in London. I build and run openplaques.org Jnicho02 (talk) 10:18, 12 June 2023 (UTC)