United States/Men Remembered

This project serves to improve the representation of prominent men figures in OpenStreetMap by mapping streets and buildings named after men, as well as art and statues depicting prominent men in the United States.

This article is an apparent parody of United States/Women Remembered that does not describe an active mapping project. [1]

Getting started

Some easy ways to contribute:

• Add unmapped POI or name tags to locations in OSM representing prominent men using the tags #MenRemembered

See below for guidance on tagging for this project.

Street Names

Add Wikipedia links to existing streets

Street names are largely mapped across the United States, however, there are gaps in Wikipedia data linked to streets named after prominent men. Tag streets with name:etymology=* and name:etymology:wikidata=* if they are named after the person or with subject=* and subject:wikidata=* if they commemorate the person.

Fix renamed streets

Look for streets where municipalities and local governments have permanently changed a street to be named after a prominent man.

1. Be sure that the change is a permanent change of the primary street name. See below for Honorary or Secondary names.
2. Change the name=* to represent the new name.
3. Maintain the previous name under the old_name=* tag.
4. Follow guidance above to add wikipedia data.

Add Honorary (or Secondary) Street Names

Look for streets where municipalities and local governments have added honorary or secondary street names after a prominent man.

1. Add the alt_name=* tag to include the honorary or secondary street name.
2. Follow guidance above to add wikipedia data.

Building Names

Tag buildings with name:etymology=* and name:etymology:wikidata=* if they are named after the person or with subject=* and subject:wikidata=* if they commemorate the person.

Art, Statues, and Memorials

Artwork representing and depicting prominent men

Tag artwork depicting prominent men with tourism=artwork as well as artwork_type=*, artwork_subject=* and subject:wikidata=*. See tourism=artwork for additional useful tags.

For statues, see Memorials.

Memorials remembering historical women

• Tag memorials remembering historical men with historic=memorial + memorial=*, as well as subject=* and subject:wikidata=*.
• Tag statues representing a historical person with historic=memorial + memorial=statue and name=*, as well as subject=* and subject:wikidata=*. See memorial=statue for additional useful tags.

Artwork by Men

Regardless of subject, it is also critical to showcase artwork created by men. Tag artwork with artist_name=* + artist:wikidata=*.

Tools

Many of the ideas above share a set of tools in common:

• iD – multiple-selection editing is especially handy when tagging road name etymologies; for the time being, the functionality is only available in the development branch of iD
• Overpass API and Overpass turbo – query OSM data based on tags, view matching features on an interactive map, and export the data in a variety of formats
• Sophox – query OSM data in conjunction with external data sources such as Wikidata, view matching features on an interactive map or as a table, and export the data in tabular form
• Wikidata – find a Wikidata item by its English Wikipedia article title