<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 21, 2018, at 9:18 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <<a href="mailto:dieterdreist@gmail.com" class="">dieterdreist@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;" class="">I would not consider a freestanding statue or several of them (not in a niche or covered or inside some other construction) , a “shrine”</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They are usually the same objects inside other wayside shrines (as I understand it). The other “statues” are simply luckier to have a roof. </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">I understand that mapping objects - small wooden or similar structures too small for people to enter vs a statue seems like a good distinction to make, especially for “duck” mapping. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but similar to how we would map bicycle parking as covered=yes/no, the parking is the major concern, rather than then the rain cover. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Maybe it is proper to separate the freestanding jiso statues into a separate category (wayside_statue), but Tomoya is approaching it as they are both wayside statues of jizo. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091167075/in/album-72157638113676925/" class="">https://www.flickr.com/photos/javbw/11091167075/in/album-72157638113676925/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I believe these are the same statues. They serve the same purpose. they both get little clothes made for them and prayed to. one group has a roof, the other doesn’t. this is a way_side shrine on a larger POW ground, along a walking path to the main building. They are pretty common too. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Because they are basically the same thing, Tomoya chooses to view them like bicycle parking (one category, covered=yes/no), while you see them as separate wayside_statue / wayside_shrine. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It might be better to let wayside_shrine be kind of a catchall, and make a wayside_shrine=* subtage with extenable values, rather than making a new tag for every object: column, painting, statue, etc to keep them grouped together - but still allow proper definition. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">javbw</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>