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  "textContent": "For quite a while now, I have been thinking about making a tutorial on mapping lifting stones. In case you are not familiar - this is a tradition throughout parts of Europe (VERY strong in the Basque country), but also in Asia and North America. Local men (and less often women, but that did happen) proved their strength by lifting a dedicated stone in the local area. You’ll find more information on Wikipedia and examples on Wikimedia. The tradition might go back thousands of years.\n\nSince and because of the lockdown during Covid, Irish man David Keohan (“indiana stones” on Instagram) has been reviving the tradition in Ireland which very much entailed finding these stones, some of which had not been lifted in 200 years! There is a website with a map (Mapbox, so based on OpenStreetMap), but I followed up on some of the locations, and they’re not all correct.\n\nLifting Stones. Glen Roy by david glass, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons\n\nDavid just launched his book “The Wind Beneath The Stone” three days ago, serendipitously a day after I started the wiki page, and I was lucky enough to go to the book launch. I just finished reading it, and one of the things that struck me was how often GoogleMaps failed him in finding the locations. Obviously, it didn’t have the stones mapped, but not even the graveyards where a lot of them are located. Well, there’s a fairly simple solution for that… You’re looking at it.\n\nAnyways, by no means do I want to take away from the adventure of finding the stones, but it would be good to have them mapped on OpenStreetMap and to utilise all the good things OpenStreetMap and linked open data brings to the table. It’s up to people to use the data or not.\n\nI started with the tag `historic=lifting_stone`, but as I say on the wiki page, if they are (still or again) being lifted, I would use `leisure=lifting_stone` as well. One problem I have is that there are some lifting stone that have smaller lifting stones around them which serve as “warming up stones”. David mentions examples in the book, and there is at least one example I came across on Wikimedia. Unfortunately, there is no image of all three on Wikimedia, but you can see them on Bing StreetSide. The main lifting stone is here.  I’m not sure what to do there: do we map all of them as lifting stones, and by the `weight` (and obviously by the size, once you’re there), people will know which one is the main lifting stone? Should there be a tag to denote with the main one whether there are warming up stones nearby? I think there should, to make it a good dataset. I know it’s micro or even nano mapping, but who’s gonna do it if not us?\n\nAlso, if there are any Basque speakers out there: I do want good Basque subtitles under the YouTube video, once I have it. I will let YouTube do its auto subtitling magic, but I would appreciate if any Basque speakers could proof read them. Pls message me, if you feel up to it.",
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