[Tagging] Religious landuse?

John Packer john.packer7 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 16:48:31 UTC 2014


I don't know how common this practice is, but sometimes I see things like
landuse=commercial and landuse=residential applied to a relatively large
area.


2014-07-25 13:38 GMT-03:00 Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>:

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> 2014-07-25 3:33 GMT+02:00 johnw <johnw at mac.com>:
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> But for a majority of the buildings I'm mapping here in rural/"suburban"
>> Japan, there isn't as much mixed use or repurposed use as you would imagine
>> - most homes are purpose-built 2 story, single family detached homes with a
>> wall around them.  It is very easy to designate their use.
>>
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>
> yes, this is simple. You draw one, tag it and copy paste to bigger
> configurations and then cp all over the place ;-)
>
>
>
>> ..., a cemetery, a buddhist temple, a 7-11, and ~10 detached homes. this
>> is all within around 300m of my house in "rural" Japan. but every one of
>> those has an easily defined border associated with the buildings - and an
>> easily understood landuse tag to go with them.
>>
> 500m away is an elementary school, with no landuse value. it depends on
>> amenity=school for **some unknown reason** to define it's landuse. Until
>> recently, the temple also had no landuse value to define the area the
>> temple grounds occupy, but now landuse=religious exists.
>>
>
>
> Maybe those landuse values haven't been proposed so far because the main
> mapnik map didn't "need" them, the style painted these amenity areas
> already ;-)
> e.g. amenity=school/university implies landuse=education. In case of
> religious things you will also have a "religion" attribute. You could of
> course add additional landuse tags, but how would that bring a benefit?
> The civic landuse sounds more interesting, because the list of possible
> building types and users can be quite long and there is no religion-like
> common attribute (or is it?).
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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