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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sep 21, 2021, 14:10 by tagging@openstreetmap.org:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div>>you are confusing "type" and "style". The building=church tag is
not necessarily about what would _you_ perceive as a church, but
about what the locals using it can perceive as a church. <br></div><div> <br></div><div> No. _I_ (& thousands of other contributors) assess churches
& other buildings by the sign above the door. When the sign is
removed because it _stops_ being a church, the building tag is
changed.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So if <br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady_Assumed_into_Heaven,_5_Mariacki_square,_Old_Town,_Krak%C3%B3w,_Poland.jpg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Our_Lady_Assumed_into_Heaven,_5_Mariacki_square,_Old_Town,_Krak%C3%B3w,_Poland.jpg</a><br></div><div dir="auto">would be converted to apartments/cinema/warehouse you would change <br></div><div dir="auto">building=church to something else?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am dubious about your claim that thousands others map in this way.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">As far as I know current use is covered by amenity=place_of_worship<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> <br></div><div> >No issue with the examples you have shown. Both seem to clearly
provide mostly a big space suitable for celebrating a religious
service, which is what churches are mostly built for. And both are
"iconic" or at least standing out from the other buildings in the
area.<br></div><div> <br></div><div> Note, you're assessing them, by their visual style.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Yes: visual style/construction type/etc<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> <br></div><div> Just because a building looks like how you guess a church should
appear, it doesn't actually mean it is, or was ever, a church. <br></div><div> <br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">yes, there are church buildings that no longer contain place of worship<br></div><div dir="auto">(and likely some cases that never contained).<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Likewise there are places of worship in warehouse buildings/residential buildings etc.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">BTW, would you map warehouse containing christian place of worship as<br></div><div dir="auto">building=church ("by the sign above the door")?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would you map<br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Feast_of_the_Ascension_of_Jesus_Christ_(Old-Catholic_Church)_in_Cracow,_Poland.jpg">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Church_of_Feast_of_the_Ascension_of_Jesus_Christ_(Old-Catholic_Church)_in_Cracow,_Poland.jpg</a><br></div><div dir="auto">as building=church just because it has sign indicating that christian religious<br></div><div dir="auto">services are performed inside?<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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