![]() Nope, and I don’t think you will ever read a definition of graffiti wrote in the stone, especially from websites who mix-up graffiti art with the engravings in rest areas bathroom walls, street gang signs and archaeological graffiti. Its importand to note that lettering was so important that many writers used to choose their name on the base of how cool the letters glued together, even if the name had no meaning. the characters and all the rest of it, it’s artistic, but it loses the point of what, exactly, I think graffiti is.” “I mean graffiti was always based around the idea of writing your name. Interview to Drax (writer) quoted in a essay by Nancy Macdonald: Colours and designs are secondary, focus in on the primary concept in graffiti and master your letter forms’ ). These are a writer’s principal concern: ‘Letters should stand on their own with no help of colours or elaborate ![]() ![]() The most important demonstration of a piecer’s skill, however, lies in his/her letter forms. Speaking about books, some parts that maybe can help understand the importance of the lettering: Post-graffiti seems to be an umbrella term that comprehends also street art. (At least they’ll then have exact pictures to help make up their minds clearly without guessing). IOW, IMHO ground mappers should go map now with best guess they have (instead of sitting home and waiting for some revelation of “one true way to map things”), and leave minor details as exact tag value definitions to wikieditors and armchair mappers to tweak later to their hearts delight. Then, when and if clearer tag guidelines are later established, people can later review and update to newer, more detailed and much clearer (and hopefully also less encumbered by their implied plain English meaning) values. But it doesn’t and likely won’t, so no point wasting time in that direction either).Īnyway, in my use, the main reason why I’d tag such graffiti/streetart in OSM at all, is to attach its picture in wikimedia_commons=* tag in the first place (and/or wikidata=* with appropriate picture linked, especially if I have more information to add). ![]() (If OSM were to use non-human-readable identifiers - like wikidata does with Q12345 - that point of confusion would be significantly reduced, if not removed altogether. That is of course unfortunate, but it seems to also be unavoidable fact of reality in current OSM tagging model which is using (mostly) British English words for tags and values. The best one could hope for is per-country agreement, but even that varies a lot. Especially as they use common words in English like “mural”, “street art” and “graffiti” – so even if precise meaning were decided on the forum, proposed, voted and agreed upon, and clarified down to the tiniest detail in the wiki, so there is no ambiguity at all (which sounds like incredibly complex and time consuming task) - many users would nevertheless just assume “common English” meaning (which will likely vary for different countries, languages and cultures, and as we can see even inside one country) and use that “commonly understood meaning” instead of the thing that wiki says, derailing that effort.Īs example, just look on place=* values and it usages in the world. While it would be nice to have clearer definition for those values, seeing as those tag values are already in use, it is in my opinion unlikely one could rely on them for such precision. As much I want to call it graffiti, I don’t have a clear definition that I can match with the art in question This would obviously make it a type of “street art” and a mural. What words would you use to describe this piece of art? It clear painted on a wall of public infrastructure.
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