Mapping historic areas with ruined buildings over an area

General talk
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Hi,

I’m a relative newbie, so please go easy on me! If my terminology isn’t quite right, please bear with me. I’m using iD.

I have the pleasure of living near an area of woodland that contains the ruins of a Gunpowder Works that made gunpowder from approx 1600-1916. It consists of buildings and ruins of buildings in various states from foundations only to complete buildings. The site is about 0.25m long. It’s here:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/51.21812/-0.52849&layers=N

The purpose/function of all the buildings is known, so each has a name. So far I’ve defined an area around the site called Chilworth Gunpowder Works tagged as
historic:ruins
historic:civilization:modern
name:Chilworth Gunpowder Works

I’ve then added outlines for the individual buildings which are tagged as historic site:
building:yes
historic:building
historic:civilization:modern
name:Steam Incorporating Mills

I don’t think I’ve got this quite right, because I should tag the ruined buildings as ruins and the complete building as building:yes.

What are your thoughts, and how should I handle this?

Help and correction gratefully received.
IDWL

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Different maps will show different things - if you look at https://map.atownsend.org.uk/maps/map/map.html#zoom=17&lat=51.218406&lon=-0.52808 you can see more of the historic objects than if you look at OSM’s standard layer.

That actually shows https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/616742072 in preference to the woodland there now (which is a bug on that map).

https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/historic#values shows the values used with the “historic” key. Maybe “archaeological_site” is better for the big area than “ruins”?