Following the discussion over my proposal for settlement_type=crannog, I have done some clean-ups in the Historical group. Dear me, it was needed.

Today, I tackled site_type on taginfo which comprised of 38 messy pages. I spent 3.5hours

• fixing spelling mistakes
• changing upper case to lower case
• changing spaces to underscores
• translating values from a myriad of languages into English etc
• translating and fixing values for historic:civilization
• moving values from site_type to description or name
• etc.

I did not attempt to translate from Russian/ Chinese/ Japanese, but there is a lot of work waiting out there for those who are able to speak those.

We will see how many pages of values there are tomorrow.

It would be a huge project to get these tags more systematic and documented, so at least there wouldn’t be an excuse for messy mapping any longer.

Even just to decide on one key for cemetery/ burial/ burial_ground/ burial_site/ necropolis/ grave_yard/ grave_field/ graves/ mass_grave would be a start (cemetery seems a difficult word for people to spell).

It was very interesting to see what people have mapped all over the world, though.

EDIT 2022-10-16: It’s down to 32 pages now. Working on more translations today.

EDIT: 2022-10-17: It’s now down to 23 pages. There were a lot of values more suitable for name or description on the last pages (mainly Russian, Japanese and other languages where I definitely needed GoogleTranslate), but I’ve tried to move them accordingly.