Historic

A Feature that is used to tag various historic places.

historic:
  value: aircraft
  match: equals

Only the following values are allowed:

  • aircraft - A decommissioned aircraft which generally remains in one place.
  • anchor - A historic/retired anchor. Usually found in historic maritime areas.
  • archaeological_site - A place in which evidence of past activity is preserved.
  • battlefield - The site of a battle or military skirmish in the past.
  • bomb_crater - A bomb crater.
  • boundary_stone - A historic physical marker that identifies a boundary.
  • building - Unspecified historic building.
  • bullaun_stone - A stone with one or more depressions.
  • cannon - A historic/retired cannon. Usually found on forts or battlefields.
  • castle - Used for various kinds of castles, palaces, fortresses, manors, stately homes, kremlins, shiros and other.
  • charcoal_pile - A historic site of a charcoal pile. Often still in good condition in hilly forest areas.
  • church - A church with a historical value.
  • city_gate - A city gate within a city wall.
  • creamery - A creamery is an industrial building where butter and sometimes cheese or ice-cream were made from milk. For rural communities, it also served as a social gathering point.
  • district - A designated historic district.
  • epigraph - A historic inscription on an object.
  • farm - A historical farm, kept in its original state.
  • fort - A military fort, a stand-alone defensive structure which differs from a castle in that there is no permanent residence.
  • gallows - Remains of a gallows.
  • house - A historic house.
  • high_cross - An early medieaval standing cross, richly decorated, often with a ring surrounding the crossing point.
  • highwater_mark - A marker indicating a past flood or high water.
  • lavoir - Disused lavoir mapped for its historical value.
  • lime_kiln - Built structure which was used in the past to produce quicklime from limestone.
  • locomotive - A decommissioned locomotive which generally remains in one place.
  • machine - A historic machine.
  • manor - Historic manors/mansions having different use today.
  • memorial - Small memorials, usually remembering special persons, people who lost their lives in the wars, past events or missing places.
  • milestone - A historic marker that shows the distance to important destinations.
  • millstone - A large round stone used for grinding grain or other materials.
  • mine - Location of historic underground mine workings for minerals such as coal or lead.
  • minecart - A cart used to transport coal or ore from a mine.
  • monastery - Building/place that is a historically significant monastery.
  • monument - A memorial object, which is especially large, built to remember, show respect to a person or group of people or to commemorate an event.
  • mosque - A mosque with a historical and archaeological value.
  • ogham_stone - A stone with an Ogham script on it. They are most commonly found in Ireland as free standing stones, lying on the ground, recycled in buildings such as churches or as artefacts in museums.
  • optical_telegraph - Semaphore system.
  • pa - A New Zealand Maori Pā.
  • pillory - A pillory.
  • pound - A former amenity to hold stray or seized animals, often walled.
  • railway_car - A decommissioned railway car which generally remains in one place.
  • round_tower - Slim, conical tower built as a bell tower and watchtower in Ireland.
  • ruins - Remains of structures that were once complete, but have fallen into partial or complete disrepair.
  • rune_stone - Stones, boulders or bedrock with historical runic inscriptions.
  • shieling - An abandoned mountain pasture.
  • ship - A decommissioned ship/submarine which generally remains in one place.
  • stećak - Specifies megalithic gravestone from medieval Bosnia.
  • stone - A stone shaped or placed by man with historical value.
  • tank - A decommissioned tank which generally remains in one place.
  • temple - An ancient pagan temple in_situ and in various degree of preservation, such as Ziggurat, Egyptian temple, Mithraeum, Erechtheion, Buddhist, Meso-American and other ancient religious and rituals' temples, with a historical and archaeological value.
  • tomb - A structure where somebody has been buried.
  • tower - This property distinguishes a tower as historic.
  • vehicle - A decommissioned vehicle which generally remains in one place.
  • wayside_cross - A historical cross along a way, symbol of Christian faith.
  • wayside_shrine - A shrine often showing a religious depiction. Tag is used also for modern shrines.
  • wreck - A nautical craft that has been sunk or destroyed.
  • yes - Used to add the historic significance of the objects described by other tags.