After a holiday to Tasmania earlier in the year, I’ve added names of several buildings at the Woolmers estate (https://www.woolmers.com.au/) to OSM, along with the tag ‘historic = building / house’ to some of these buildings.
Are there any general guides to adding the tag ‘historic = building / house’ to historic buildings / houses, please? (either for features already on OSM or those not yet on there)
This applies both to other places visited on the holiday as well as houses / buildings of a historic nature closer to where I live (for the latter, see: https://www.facebook.com/groups/251032988414470/posts/598672730317159/ as one possible historic house that could be added to OSM).
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one or more of these could apply depending on the situation.
- If a building is in some stage of decay, eg ruins, I’d use the lifecycle prefix for that Lifecycle prefix - OpenStreetMap Wiki
- I’d try to tag the
start_date=*to mark when the building was built - If you want to indicate the building has historical significance, then
historic=*is the way to go - If it’s turned into tourism attraction you can also use
tourism=attraction heritage=*is for when there is some official heritage protection, not just historical significance
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OK, as far as ‘heritage’ goes, what could be used as a definition for that, please, eg:
- National Trust properties
- State-level heritage registers (eg. https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/ for Victoria)
- Federal heritage list - https://www.dcceew.gov.au/parks-heritage/heritage/publications/australian-heritage-database
- Engineers Australia heritage sites - Engineering Heritage Australia
I’ve used these as a guide for some places to visit on past holidays.
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I’ve been adding anything in WA with an inHerit ID, as well as adding these to Wikidata and linking the OSM feature to Wikidata and vice-versa. That includes municipal heritage items, which I guess in some cases is stretching things a bit, but if they exist on the ground and can be mapped I figure they’re fair game for Wikidata (and photos on Commons and linking the photos from OSM as well).
Some further queries for adding historic features.
I was walking past Victoria Barracks (St Kilda Rd, Melbourne) recently and noted there were 4 historic guns at the front (a photo of one by someone else is at: Beautiful 19th century Government building Victoria Barracks Melbourne Australia Stock Photo - Alamy ).
If these were to be added to OSM, what tag would be appropriate - they wouldn’t really be big enough for ‘historic=cannon’? IIRC, every now and then you would find an RSL or similar with such a gun out the front.
That got me thinking - The Briars park (closer to home) has a historic tractor, see: https://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/files/assets/public/v/1/new-website-documents/environment/the-briars/images/tractoronhill.jpg
Could this be called ‘historic=vehicle’?
Finally, for railway museums, could individual locomotives / rollingstock be added if in fixed locations?
As an old Gunner, I can tell you that that’s well & truly getting up there in regard to size of guns, so yep, historic-cannon is the way to go! 
Unfortunately, they don’t render on Carto 
Graeme, thank you for the clarification, it’s good to know.
I’ve got OSMAnd and Vespucci on my phone, and they both show more than the OSM website.
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