[HOT] Adding "Buddhist", "Hindu", and Muslim to the tags

[Blake Girardot]

Hi Suzan,

I think multiple tags are required to map them completely.

If you look over:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship

and

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:denomination

I think you can mark them pretty well.

A stupa seems to most likely also include man_made=tower, 
tower:type=stupa tags.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dtower

+ the other tags for place and worship and such.

You can also use taginfo to help see how other people are tagging things:

http://taginfo.osm.org/search?q=stupa#values

you have to check the 'key' and the 'value' tabs when you trying to 
figure some stuff out and then the 'combination' tab to see what other 
tags are usually used with a particular key.

Hope that helps, would love to hear what you settle on for a set of tags 
for the buddhist places.

Cheers,
Blake


On 8/13/2015 10:12 PM, Suzan Reed wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Both in Nepal and now in Myanmar we are mapping Buddhist and Hindu shrines, temples, and monasteries. However, there are no tags for these buildings or sites. In Nepal and Myanmar there are stupas as well. Can we get appropriate tags for these buildings added? Also in some Christian and Muslim areas there are monasteries, shrines, and so on. The tagging system includes all the Christian denominations, but nothing for these other religions.
>
> I’m not sure if the following would be correct. Maybe these are all Building=?
>
> Temple=Buddhist
> Temple=Hindu
> Monastery=Buddhist
> Monastery=Hindu
> Monastery=Christian
> Shrine=Buddhist
> Shrine=Hindu
> Shrine=Christian
> Shrine=Stupa
> etc.
>
> Thanks and happy mapping!
>
> Suzan
>
>
>