In hiking and recreational areas, I frequently come across information signs that contain only tourist information or details about points of interest and destinations. In my view, these should be able to be categorized as “tourism.”
(Examples and a link will follow.)
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Hello & welcome
Sorry, but are you complaining about signs being missing from OSM itself, or StreetComplate?
OSM has tourism=information + information=board used also 450000 times!
Whats asked for is the board_type value.
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You can see a list of commonly used values at taginfo here.
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is this board_type=history ?
Is this board_type=history ? It looks like that but text is not readable like on other photo so I am unable to be sure
Hi OpenGreenStreet,
welcome to our forum. The value you are looking for is existing since long but not documented in the wiki page for board_type.
board_type=tourism has been used some 1.200 times so far and you can find it in taginfo (see the link provided by @SomeoneElse). I am using it myself from time to time for exactly those kind of boards you described.
Cheers Mikke
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@Map_HeRo , @FroschForscher , @SomeoneElse , @Mateusz_Konieczny , @Fizzie-DWG
Thank you for your feedback. Yes, my point is that “board_type=tourism” should be available in “StreetComplete.” I’m curious to see if the discussion here will be enough to make this happen.
Would you @Map_HeRo (or someone else who have been using that tourism value) be kind enough to document its meaning in the board_type=* wiki (as ATYL suggests)?
so far I do not see how this value differs from history value, at least from provided examples
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First picture is too blurry. (and I don’t know German language to confirm that second one is purely history 
)
But I can say from own experience that such boards often differ from history - they might be listing places to eat local food and buy local souvenirs, non-historic tourist attractions (zoos, adventure parks, pleasure boat rides) etc.
They are usually combination of detailed pics+text and map (like on that “red” example - although I have not read its contest in detail, title allegedly means “What to do in Strausberg” and that is probably not purely-history related[1]).
But yes, Tourist-related activites might include some historic-related things too (like fortress remains or museums) – but such tourist guides are not usually oriented exclusively on them (at least over here they’re not – I don’t think I have any pictures at hand, though).
well, it theorethically might be if that city was some deserted ruins, but it looks more lively to me, so it probably includes more then just a history-related stuff ↩︎
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Already on my list …
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It is exactly as described by @Matija_Nalis. These boards offer general touristic information about points of interest, entertainment facilities, hotels and restaurants and the like. I have a lot of pictures of information boards type nature, history and the like but I never made a photo of the touristic type cause I’m not interested in all this stuff. I’ll make some pics as soon as I see the next ones and create a wiki page for the tag.
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I don’t seem to have any photos either, but I agree they are common and often don’t reflect a single topic or activity like history or hiking.
I used to think of tourism=information, information=board without board_type as already implying exactly that. So board_type is for something more specific than general tourist information. Maybe other mappers feel the same and that’s a partial reason for low usage of this tag, despite this being something relatively common: the combination of the three tags seems to be saying “this is a tourist information board that provides tourist information”.
But I think over time the information=board tag has been used for many things completely unrelated to tourism, and the top level tag may have become rather meaningless. So maybe it is indeed a good idea to have a specific tag.
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I had the same thoughts and hesitated to make use of this tag in the beginning and ended up doing it for the same reason you mentioned.
Btw: The meaninglessness of the top level tag tourism=information has been discussed earlier and there was a proposal to get rid of it some time ago. It failed, so we still use the tag as a line filler for the attribute box … 
I have added tourism to the the board_type wiki page. Will create a separate page for it as soon as I can provide a sample pic or two.
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Thanks. Does it make sense to publish the Strausberg photo on Wikimedia Commons for further use?
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