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    <p><font face="Verdana">Dear Anne,<br>
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    <p><font face="Verdana">You should abstain from using specific
        religious terms like "holy" and "paganism".<br>
        To my honest opinion the existing tagging schemes and
        attribution for amenity=place_of_worship combined with
        tourist=attraction offer enough flexibility and most of all
        neutrality in the religious context to suite your needs.<br>
        Of course there are numerous wells across the world with either
        a religious significance (sometimes the same well is significant
        in different religions or to different denominations). Some have
        significance for tourism purposes, others might be preferred by
        the worshippers, to be accessible only in a more private
        context.<br>
        Please read through the related wiki pages, to my opinion very
        detailed and of high quality to address your local specific
        needs and offering enough variation for any religious or tourist
        related significance. You can extend them to suite your specific
        needs, I personally see no need for a new key or value for this
        purpose or revert to a proposal if you feel you need broader
        confirmation from the community. Do respect neutrality in the
        additions or modifications.<br>
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    <p><font face="Verdana">Greetings, Bert Araali</font></p>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/02/2021 21:31, Anne-Karoline
      Distel wrote:<br>
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      <p>I understand it's a bit of a tricky one. Wishing wells/
        fountains mostly used by tourists should not count, because
        there is not an established religion behind that thinking of
        leaving a coin for good luck. They are all votive offerings
        though, no matter if they are rags or coins or whatever else
        people leave there (probably masks now, I haven't been to a site
        since lockdown).</p>
      <p>Good rule of thumb: If it has a saint's name attached, it's a
        holy well. Or rather "holy well".<br>
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      <p>Anne<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 18/02/2021 um 16:04 schrieb Volker
        Schmidt:<br>
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          <div>Interesting idea.</div>
          <div>But difficult to define.</div>
          <div>There is a wide spectrum from really sacred places, like
            chapels with a spring inside to the wells or fountains where
            people go with plastic bottles <br>
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          <div>to collect "good" or "healthy" water.and the wells that
            tourists fill with coins (no drinking water there).<br>
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          <div>I would rather see this somehow under the tourism tent -
            pilgrimage is the original form of tourism.</div>
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          <div>Volker</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at
            14:42, Anne-Karoline Distel <<a
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            rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">It's me again, full of
            ideas.<br>
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            I propose a tag for holy wells, one of the reasons being
            that my local<br>
            council wants them mapped and I've been trying to convince
            them to use<br>
            OSM for a while. Also, because it would entice rural mappers
            to get<br>
            started and because they play a role in tourism (if you
            count pilgrimage<br>
            as tourism).<br>
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            I'm especially interested in other religions' perspective,
            but I don't<br>
            know if this phenomenon exists outside Christianity and
            Paganism.<br>
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            Cheers,<br>
            <br>
            Anne<br>
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