[Tagging] Religious landuse?

[johnw]

On Jul 17, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Janko Mihelić <janjko at gmail.com> wrote:

> landuse=japanese_temple_grounds, or landuse=buddhist_temple_grounds, or maybe something nicer.



My Parent's presbyterian Church in San Diego has a very large chapel building, a religious pre-school & kindergarten, a meeting hall, the church office building, and a playground for the preschool.  There is one sign and one driveway on the street for the whole thing. 

Covering the church offices, the meeting hall and the Pre-school with land-use "place of worship" is wrong. It is land-use religious (they are not a company), and the chapel itself is a place of worship, The offices are tagged a offices, the school tagged as a kindergarten, playground, etc, all encompassed by the single land use named Trinity Presbyterian Church". 

Just as we separate strain stations and platform - the station is there to provide access and service patrons of the platform, but it isn't where you get on the train. 

The church's facilities are "part of the church", and serve the churches needs, but it isn't where you do your praying and listen to the sermon. 



> We don't have to mash all cultures together in one-size-fits-all tags.

Specific tags are less-used tags. I notice we don't have natural=cherry_tree, or natural=Supertall_Redwood_Tree,  just natural=tree. Goes on all the trees. 

Generic tags with additional info are more flexible.

There are a ton of Jehovah's witness buildings around the world, but there is no "JW_Kingdom_hall_grounds tag either.

This is why we use generic tags with more specific sub-tags - to avoid this kind of messy religion-based taggery.  

narita: 
name=naritasan landuse=religion  religion=buddhist;shinto  see? easy as pie. 

BTW Buddhist is all over asia, not Just Japan, so there would be buddhist temples from Japan to Afghanistan - I bet a feeeew of them are mixed-use outside of Japan . Shinto is their homegrown religion, and because of political power struggles a long time ago, Buddhist and shinto buildings often are forced to share the same community grounds - more mixing!! Do I make a specific landuse for each case ( B, S, B+S) or do I use the elegant semicolon with the religion tag? I think the answer is clear.  Then tag the buildings with amenity=place_of_worship and religon=__ to match. 

Tag the building or the area as the amenity if that is all it is, but mixed use areas need a more flexible landuse, without betraying the purpose (it's not commercial, residential, industrial, or retail). Same reason I want a landuse=civic tag. 

There are plenty of religious places that are more than a church and a parking lot, in both the western and eastern hemispheres.