[Tagging] Religious landuse

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org>
wrote:

> Thus the comparison with [amenity=school], that can be easily expanded to
> the
> whole campus, fails for [amenity=place_of_worship].
>
> To conclude, [amenity=place_of_worship] should not be expanded to the
> full campus, and [landuse=religious] is a suitable, multicultural
> tag for this land, comparable to [landuse=retail] or [landuse=commercial]
>
> [...]
>
> Thus "amenity=place_of_worship" is perfectly tailored to this particular
> building and its meaning should not be expanded to something it was not
> defined for initially. Keep in mind it is already used 611000 times, only
> 1/3 of them has a building tag, but quite certainly 90% of them are
> buildings.
>

This completely ignores the current practice all over the world (especially
in Asia) where the landuse is already tagged with amenity=place_of_worship.
Some examples:

Buddhist temples in Tokyo, Japan: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gi
Catholic churches in Manila, Philippines: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gj
Buddhist, Hindu, Methodist, and Muslim places of worship in Singapore:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gk
Buddhist temples in Beijing, China: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gl
Hindu temples and Christian churches in Bangalore, India:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gm
Buddhist temples in Bangkok, Thailand: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/4gn

I would like to see how you came up with the "90% of them are buildings"
statistic.
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