<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Tom Pfeifer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:t.pfeifer@computer.org" target="_blank">t.pfeifer@computer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Thus the comparison with [amenity=school], that can be easily expanded to the<br>
whole campus, fails for [amenity=place_of_worship].<br>
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To conclude, [amenity=place_of_worship] should not be expanded to the<br>
full campus, and [landuse=religious] is a suitable, multicultural<br>
tag for this land, comparable to [landuse=retail] or [landuse=commercial]<br><br>[...]<br><br>Thus "amenity=place_of_worship" is perfectly tailored to this particular<br>
building and its meaning should not be expanded to something it was not<br>
defined for initially. Keep in mind it is already used 611000 times, only<br>
1/3 of them has a building tag, but quite certainly 90% of them are buildings.<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This completely ignores the current practice all over the world (especially in Asia) where the landuse is already tagged with amenity=<span class="">place_of_worship. Some examples:<br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div><div>Buddhist temples in Tokyo, Japan: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gi" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gi</a><br>
</div><div><span class="">Catholic churches in Manila</span>, Philippines: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gj" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gj</a><br></div><div>Buddhist, Hindu, Methodist, and Muslim places of worship in Singapore: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gk" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gk</a><br>
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Buddhist temples in Beijing, China: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gl" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gl</a><br></div><div>Hindu temples and Christian churches in Bangalore, India: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gm" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gm</a><br>
</div><span class="">Buddhist temples in Bangkok</span>, Thailand: <a href="http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gn" target="_blank">http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gn</a><br><br><span class="">I would like to see how you came up with the "</span><span class="">90% of them are buildings" statistic.</span><br>
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