Proposal:Tag:tourism=artwork

Status

proposal

Proposed-by

User:myfanwy

Proposal-date

2007-12-13

A tag for public pieces of art

Tags

Applies to nodes, ways and areas, depending upon the size/shape of the installation

• key=tourism value=artwork
• key=name value=<name of the artwork> (optional)
• key=artwork_type value=painting|mosaic|sculpture|mural|... (optional)
• key=artist_name value=<name of the artist> (optional)

Any additional information would be good to follow this proposal and use give:

• wikipedia:en=title_of_page
• website=http://www.example.com/some_useful_source/this_artwork.html

Rendering

A picture of a famous sculpture, maybe the Venus de Milo?

I would go with something more generic, a paintbrush or camera. - LastGrape 19:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Comments

Any modern city has some of these. I'm thinking this would be applied to purely non-functional items, for example: the Angel of the North, Tyneside; whatever is currently on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square; the Mall's Balls in Rundle Mall, Adelaide; etc.
Maybe we could add some more tags for extra information: the name of the artist, ...? Myfanwy 18:31, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Let's add artist_name= to the proposal. Probably souldn't be rendered, but nice to have in search engines. --Geoff 13:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

• We currently don't have a "toplevel" attraction tag, so it might not be a good idea to add it? -- Ulfl 04:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
  • good point, although there are a few others lined up for proposal that could go in that category. if we don't create it, maybe it should go in tourism? or leisure? none of the categories seem to fit too well Myfanwy 04:37, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
    • moved to tourism, closest i could think of Myfanwy 09:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• How about also having artwork_type=sculpture/mural/etc --Geoff 13:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
  • definitely. done Myfanwy 09:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

• I'd like to suggest that we also allow artwork_type=icon for significant religious icons, if anyone wants to tag those, and at the same time deprecate the undocumented historic=icon listing, removing it from the Map Features page. In its current state it's not doing any good, and this would provide an alternative in case anyone is actually using it. --Geoff 10:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
  • i don't doubt their significance, but in mapping terms icons don't appear to fit with this tag. i was aiming this tag at large, outdoor pieces of work that the public can easily interact with and use as location aids; does this apply to any icons? see my first comment for the sort of thing i was talking about Myfanwy 19:15, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
    • You're right, I withdraw my suggestion. --Geoff 14:40, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
    • I can definitely see the use of this for something like the Angel of the North, but in a lot of major cities there are so many outdoor works of art, like all the other sculptures in Trafalgar Square and down many of the roads that lead to it, though maybe it's nice to have all of these added to the database with a record of the artist and the name of the sculpture. The distinction between an artwork and the other existing tags like monument/memorial may also cause confusion - is artwork to be used where it isn't intended for a specific purpose such as remembrance? It would be good if some guidance could be provided to indicate when this should and shouldn't be used. TomChance 10:04, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
      • hmm, i didn't really make it that clear, but that was implied by the 'purely non-functional items' line in the first comment. it wasn't intended to include anything that's used for any other purpose than looking nice/being artistic. so, no memorials, etc. And yes, there will be lots of them, but that's up to the renderer maintainer to sort out...Myfanwy 02:44, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Voting

Is open

• I approve this proposal --Myfanwy 06:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Cbm 09:52, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Walley 10:18, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Geoff 14:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Eimai 18:35, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --LastGrape 19:34, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --TomChance 11:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal --Ulfl 12:43, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

voting has ended, this proposal is approved