[Tagging] Religious landuse

[Andreas Goss]

> If you look at
> http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=religious#map you see
> the highest density of use in Poland and Ireland, where apparently a lot of
> constellations are in need for such a tag.

As far as I can see from Poland it is mainly the work of one mapper:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:www.openstreetmap.org%2Fway%2F+landuse%3Dreligious+W%C5%82adys%C5%82aw+Komorek

He put an area around every church maybe 5-15m distance, that's pretty 
much it. I admit it really looks like it's typical there to have a fence 
sourounding a small area around the church, but do we need a landuse tag 
for that, especially such a generic one?

Previously it was often tagged as amenity=church_yard, which was pretty 
accurate in what it wanted to represent.

"A churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, 
which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchyard

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