Tag:historic=memorial
 historic = memorial
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Small memorials, usually remembering special persons, people who lost their lives in the wars, past events or missing places. 
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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 used in combination
- name=* – the name of the memorial
- subject=* - the name or description of the person/item/event commemorated here. This might be a part of or identical to the inscription. Unnecessary if subject:wikidata=* is given.
- subject:wikidata=* – the ID of the Wikidata item about the person, group, or event, commemorated.
- subject:wikipedia=* – the link to Wikipedia's article about the topic of the feature. Unnecessary if subject:wikidata=* is given.
- memorial=* - the type of memorial
- memorial=war_memorial – war memorial – if the memorial can be clearly defined with another value (such as memorial=statue), war_memorial=yes can be used in addition.[1] [2]
- memorial=plaque –
Commemorative plaque or known more commonly in North America as Historical Markers
- memorial=pavement_plaque – A plaque on a horizontal walking surface
- memorial=blue_plaque – mainly in UK. See Blue plaque
- memorial=statue – statue (personage/animal) Statue, also subtyped with statue=*
- memorial=bust – bust
- memorial=bench – bench
- memorial=sculpture – non figurative sculpture
- memorial=stele – stele
- memorial=obelisk – obelisk – Small ones only for others see historic=monument for large ones and man_made=obelisk for all kind of obelisks (by shape, also additionally)
- memorial=stone – block of stone used as support.
- memorial=stolperstein – Stolperstein
- memorial=cross – memorial cross – Do not confuse with historic=wayside_cross and man_made=cross
- memorial=ghost_bike – a white bicycle to remember cyclists who died in traffic accidents.
- memorial:conflict=* – name of the conflict to which the memorial refers (First World War = WW1, Second World War = WW2, ...)
- height=* – height
- material=* – memorial material
- historic:civilization=* – for the civilization that created the feature.
- artist_name=* – artist name
- artist:wikidata=* – the ID of the Wikidata item about the artist.
- artist:wikipedia=* – the link to Wikipedia's article about the artist.
- architect=* – architect name – The memorials are not always only the work of artists, architects may have participated. This is often the case with statue pedestals.
- architect:wikidata=* – the ID of the Wikidata item about the architect.
- architect:wikipedia=* – the link to Wikipedia's article about the architect.
- start_date=* – inauguration date
- inscription=* – the text of an inscription that may be found on the memorial.
- inscription:url=* – where the inscription can be found on an external website, e.g. Wikisource.
- wikidata=* – the wikidata-ID of the specific Wikidata item about the memorial (if any).
- wikipedia=* – the to the specific Wikipedia article about the memorial (if any). Unnecessary if the wikidata-item is already given
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.
War memorial - WW1 - Le Crotoy - France
Plaque - Location of the Marco Polo house - Venice - Italy
Blue plaque - Sherlock Holmes apartment - London - United-Kingdom
Statue - Cicero, Rome, Italy
Bust - Savitribai Phule - New Delhi - India
Sculpture - Suffragettes Memorial - London - United-Kingdom
Stele - Bochō Yamamura - Takasaki - Japan
Stone - Battle of Glentrool - Glentrool - Scotland - United-Kingdom
Stolperstein - Else Liebermann von Wahlendorf - Berlin - Germany
Cross - Memorial cross to fallen Canal Rideau workers - Ottawa - Canada
Ghost bike - María José Ramírez - Ñuñoa - Chili
Possible tagging mistakes
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
- Memorial on Wikipedia
- Sühnestein are a special type of memorials – there is no special English word for this so memorial:type=de:mordwange will be use. Look even suehnekreuz.de
- Wikipedia suggests Conciliation cross
- Another pattern for "Sühnekreuz" historic=stone and stone_type=conciliation_cross
- taginfo for stone_type=conciliation_cross
- This map shows Sühnekreuze
- Wikipedia suggests
- You can check the inappropriate use of historic=monument with the tool "CheckTheMonuments" and correct the errors if you have the knowledge about the objects.
- HistOSM – An atlas of historic sites based on OSM, out of the University of Heidelberg