[Tagging] Religious landuse?

[Brad Neuhauser]

Schools are an interesting case for comparison, as on the surface they seem
similar.  But here's where I see the distinction: many times the entire
school grounds is used for school activities (including things like
building, playground, sports pitch, parking, etc). But with place of
worship, it is usually just one area of a grounds (often a building) that
is used for worship. Yet, other activities related to that religious
community may take place in the grounds, and that's what we're trying to
figure out here. Maybe it's the phrasing of "place of worship" that's part
of the issue--it's very specific!

Martin brought up amenity=monastery--it sounds like that might work for
John's case in Japan. But there are other cases. To take an extreme
example, some churches in the US have large "campuses". This one near
Memphis is bigger than some schools, and includes a gym and baseball
fields! http://tinyurl.com/ns6or8m  What to do here? I would say that it
doesn't make sense to tag the whole area as place of worship, that's
factually incorrect. So, if people are opposed to landuse=religious, what
would you recommend for a case like this? The only other option I can think
of might be to put an operator and/or religion tag on other mapped features
in the area, but that seems less than ideal.

Brad


On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:14 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com
> wrote:

>
>
> > Am 17/lug/2014 um 10:46 schrieb Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com>:
> >
> > The problem is that amenity=place_of_worship is
> > always rendered as a building even when it could be a bigger area
> > (like for schools).
>
>
> In the Christian religion (which is where I happen to map, don't know
> about other religions) I use this tag on the sacred ground, which might
> extend to the churchyard, an oratory, or some outdoor space around the
> church, but often wouldn't comprise a kindergarten or some administration
> facility of the church, so I don't think place of worship can be used for
> this context. For monasteries I use amenity=monastery and put pow only on
> the churches and chapels...
>
> Agree that place of worship shouldn't render as a building
>
> cheers,
> Martin
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