[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (man_made=cross)

[Tobias Knerr]

On 22.09.2012 07:19, Martin Vonwald (Imagic) wrote:
> Am 21.09.2012 um 23:43 schrieb Vincent Pottier <vpottier at gmail.com>:
> 
>> But, is it possible to have something more generic across the religions like
>> man_made=(something saying it is a small religious monument)
>> (something saying it is a small religious monument)=cross|virgin_statue|statue_of saint|chörten|sacred_stone|station_of_the_cross...
>> where religion=* (and denomination) could be applied.
>>
>> in the same way than place_of_worship ?
> 
> I had exactly the same thought.

So your suggestion is basically to put these features into an explicitly
tagged category based on their religious background? I'd like to point
out that this might make things more complicated. You suddenly need to
tag "statue of saint" and "statue of king" completely differently, even
though the distinction makes almost no difference for today's reality.

If these were often sought out for their function, like typical
amenities, this would make sense. But because we are talking about a
class of features that are mostly treated as landmarks or decoration and
are not usually sought out in a generic way - "I'm looking for the
closest religious monument, whatever it is" is probably a very rare use
case -, I see little benefit in such a classification.

Tobias