<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span class="im">>> "<span>only a few of the religious buildings can be concidered landmarks. In my home city it is 1 of 5</span>"<br></span><span class="im">> Here in the New World, the proportion of significant churches is
similarly low in many places. <br>> Using Cincinnati, Ohio, and its
surrounding county as an example, only 25% of OSM-tagged <br>> religious
buildings could be considered historic.<br><br></span></div>In Poland nearly all churches are landmarks, what is not changed by fact that small part of them is historic (for example:<br></div>recently constructed church in Ochotnica Górna - <br><a href="https://www.google.pl/maps/@49.5114794,20.2478019,3a,75y,248.68h,78.69t/data=%213m4%211e1%213m2%211sC9_0FPJ_m3iUJAKpjMLQ9w%212e0?hl=pl" target="_blank">https://www.google.pl/maps/@49.5114794,20.2478019,3a,75y,248.68h,78.69t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sC9_0FPJ_m3iUJAKpjMLQ9w!2e0?hl=pl</a><br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.5115&mlon=20.2458#map=15/49.5115/20.2458&layers=N" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.5115&mlon=20.2458#map=15/49.5115/20.2458&layers=N</a><br>)<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-29 2:41 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us" target="_blank">minh@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2014-11-28 14:37, Mihkel Rämmel wrote:<br>
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By making all religious buildings highly visible on the current<br>
buildings demo style it makes a great style to use when you want to<br>
visit all the religious places nearby but nothing else. I do not know<br>
about the rest of the world but at least in a typical eastern european<br>
city only a few of the religious buildings can be concidered<br>
landmarks. In my home city it is 1 of 5.<br>
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Here in the New World, the proportion of significant churches is similarly low in many places. Using Cincinnati, Ohio, and its surrounding county as an example, only 25% of OSM-tagged religious buildings could be considered historic.<br>
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overpass turbo shows 201 ways in the county that are tagged amenity=place_of_worship, amenity:historic=place_of_<u></u>worship, or building=church. (We're starting to use specific building tags like =church around here, but we aren't quite there yet.) By comparison, only 45 churches and five synagogues have Wikipedia articles [1] and only 33 buildings with "church", "chapel", "cathedral", or "temple" in their names are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] By comparison, Wikipedia has more articles on high schools in the same county. [3]<br>
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If you include the 460 place-of-worship POIs that could someday be remapped as building footprints, the statistic would drop to less than 8%. (We've already deleted or retagged GNIS-imported churches marked "historic".)<br>
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The Cincinnati-Middletown metropolitan statistical area was ranked 71st most religious in a 2012 Gallup poll of 189 U.S. MSAs. Granted, that's a measure of the importance residents place on religion, not the city's church architecture. But there are plenty of places in this country where churches are even less important.<br>
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I don't dispute that churches are important to navigation in many older cities, particularly in Europe. But openstreetmap-carto contributors have always reiterated the importance of keeping regional styles to a minimum. The other building types included in the buildings-major layer (supermarket, mall, attraction) each have an inherent largeness or importance, but globally, churches aren't necessarily large or key to wayfinding. (What about building=mosque, building=temple, etc.?)<br>
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[1] <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Churches_in_Hamilton_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<u></u>wiki/Category:Churches_in_<u></u>Hamilton_County,_Ohio</a>><br>
[2] <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_Hamilton_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<u></u>wiki/National_Register_of_<u></u>Historic_Places_listings_in_<u></u>Hamilton_County,_Ohio</a>><br>
[3] <<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:High_schools_in_Hamilton_County,_Ohio" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/<u></u>wiki/Category:High_schools_in_<u></u>Hamilton_County,_Ohio</a>><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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