@openplaques now exists for #openplaques historical memorial plaques marking events/objects in space and time

Finally, three odd images from the day.

1. This is supposedly the longest bench in the world, although clearly not all of it is comfortable. You can sponsor a slat if you wish.

2. The walk along the river is punctuated with information boards and these plaques containing recipes, which will presumably give @jez and #OpenPlaques a headache!

3. All visitors to Littlehampton are reminded that you must Not Forget Your Kill Cord!

@hisdeedsaredust Oh! That plaque is a new one to me. Have added it to #OpenPlaques

Noticed in Oakham, a 'fake' blue plaque on the side of Oakham Tyres on Station Approach. Designed to look like an official blue plaque, but recording the mundane refurbishment of a completely indistinguished building, which is not much more than a shed.

Would it be appropriate to map this on #OpenStreetMap like a conventional plaque relating to something of historical interest?

#OpenPlaques MT @jez

Apparently, Raye (the singer) has put up a plaque on the Nightingale pub in Balham to commemorate her ex. As usual, unlike random people on Instagram, I cannot publish an image on #openplaques until an Open Data licenced one is available. The data record awaits.
today's additions to #OpenPlaques include twin plaques to Terry Higgins in Haverfordwest whom the Terence Higgins Trust was named after. I've swithered over whether to generate fedi activity feeds for this sort of addition because, by design, we don't have a photo yet and I think that casual viewers would want to see it.
https://openplaques.org/plaques/79963
https://openplaques.org/plaques/79964

#OpenPlaques now links plaque records to #OpenStreetMap nodes and accepts their geolocation as *the* most accurate position of all Open Data (Flickr, Geograph, Wikimedia Commons, OSM, OpenPlaques).

The openplaques:id OSM key has existed for a long time enabling Linked Open Data queries to get plaque details. This hasn't stopped some OSMers from adding more and more attributes within OSM itself. C'est la vie. That's life on the edge of the map (data).

hmmm, 13000 users of #openplaques this month were from Lanzhou, China. Not suspicious at all, no. (AI crawler botnet)
#openplaques has used AWS Comprehend for a number of years. It now let's you start creating a new subject direct from its suggestions. I'm trying to improve the workflow of plaque curation so that we can widen the pool of curators.

La placa al Niño de las Moras ya aparece en Open Plaques. https://openplaques.org/plaques/78861

#OpenPlaques #ElPalo