I went to add a feature (Craswell Priory) but found that it appeared when I entered Edit mode but doesn’t show on the map.
The Priory is within this area:
There is a detailed explanation here:
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If you look at the table of values at Key:historic - OpenStreetMap Wiki you will see that only a few of these values are rendered at the standard map, Carto.
historic=ruins will not get rendered.
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True, I have not checked this detail. To my understanding a priory is a kind of monastery and such ruins very often are classified as archaeological sites (at least in Germany). If this is the case for the Craswell priory you can draw an area around the site and tag it as
historic=archaeological_site
archaeological_site=monastery
access=yes
heritage=yes
historic:civilization=medieval
name=Craswell Priory
ruins=yes
wikidata=Q5182531
wikipedia=en:Craswall Priory
Such sites are rendered in the standard map with an icon and the name.
OT: @Vinzenz_Mai
Such cases are not mentioned yet in the standard reply linked above. Will be added soon.
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There are lots and lots of maps made with OpenStreetMap data. Each one has to choose what to show because there is so much information in OSM that if everything was, it’d completely overwhelm the person looking at it. However, for almost anything mapped in OSM there is some map somewhere that shows it.
There is a website called taginfo that you can use to search all the keys and values used in OSM and see where they are used. For historic=priory, you can see that there are only 7 mapped like that worldwide and only 3 related projects** that will show it on a map
(although lots of others will show it as a “general historical thing”).
An alternative tagging, archaeological_site=monastery was suggested above. Here is a nunnery tagged like that. There are 60 things tagged like that around the world.
The most popular tagging for this sort of thing by a country mile is historic=monastery - 2,600 of those worldwide and 15,500 non-historic examples.
** disclaimer: mine
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I would use historic=monastery rather for an existing building of historic importance or such remains which are still recognizable as a building, whereas Craswell Priory is merely a few wall stumps left. I’d say it’s definitely more an archaeological site (or just a ruin) than a monastery. Anyhow I have to admit that not every ruin is an archaeological site and would use this tag only if the archaeological status is confirmed.