[Tagging] Wayside shrines that are not historic

[Mateusz Konieczny]

2014-08-19 17:23 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org>:

> Mateusz Konieczny wrote, on 2014-08-19 16:45:
>
>  How one should tag wayside shrine that is not historic?
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine is not providing
>> an answer.
>>
>
> That question was asked 2010 already on the discussion page.
>
> I agree that 'historic' is ambiguous in the first place, since
> it does not specify if historic means old vs. recently built,
> or out of use vs. still being used.
>
> Secondly, they are certainly being used for acts of worshipping,
> historic or not, e.g. when sitting in a bus in Greece I see
> people worshipping even when the vehicle just passes by.
>
> Thus combining amenity=place_of_worship with the appropriate
> building tag  building=wayside_[shrine|cross] appears plausible.
>
> Is is important here to give the renderer a clue at which zoom
> level to draw it, since amenity=place_of_worship is currently
> heavily used for buildings of significant size such as
> churches/temples/mosques (376000 as nodes and 232000 as ways,
> only 33% having a building tag).
>
> This would also emphasise to limit the use of
> amenity=place_of_worship to the actual place that is used
> for the worshipping, i.e. the weekly/daily congregation,
> and the individual praying;
> and not for larger areas/campuses around such places,
> where I prefer landuse=religious
>
>
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As there is currently no clear tag, I would suggest man_made=wayside_shrine
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