[Tagging] Religious landuse

[Jesse B. Crawford]

As a perhaps helpful example, near my old home in Portland, OR, USA
there was a "retreat" facility operated by the catholic diocese. It
featured extensive grounds that you might call a park, except that they
were fenced and intended for religious or reflective use, with shrines
and such placed throughout. This is visible in iD at
https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?relation=186579#map=18/45.49915/-122.61703
[3], and you will see that it is currently not marked with any polygon
(although there is a point for the church and school with the same
operator). 

I think there should be a polygon for this site, but a 'park' tagging is
not really appropriate since it is not open to the public and not
intended for many of the uses of a park anyway (e.g. you wouldn't run
your dog there). But I'm not sure how it being out of public access
changes the situation. 

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Jesse B. Crawford
Student, Information Technology
New Mexico Inst. of Mining & Tech

https://jbcrawford.us || jesse at jbcrawford.us
https://cs.nmt.edu/~jcrawford || jcrawford at cs.nmt.edu

On 2014-07-31 06:48 AM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: 

> 2014-07-31 14:31 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfeifer at computer.org>:
> 
>> If you look at http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=religious#map [1] you see
>> the highest density of use in Poland and Ireland, where apparently a lot of
>> constellations are in need for such a tag.
>> 
>> Certainly it does not target a prayer room in a multifunctional building or a
>> church squeezed wall-to-wall into a row of inner-city terraced buildings.
> 
> I agree that words like "nonesense" should be kept out of constructive discussions. 
> 
> Could you give some examples where landuse=religious does make sense? I have not seen any definition for this so far. What would be a religious activity/usage, that is not worshipping and is not covered by other landuses? Are you aware of the possibility to add "religion=*" and "denomination=*" to any feature to mark religious affiliation?
> 
> Do you agree on putting amenity=place_of_worship on the sacred area, and not just on the building (e.g. church)?
> 
> FYI, I am mapping in Rome and so far we haven't yet discovered a need for landuse=religious despite the fact there are really lots of features related to the catholic church (I have read estimates that one fourth of the city of Rome is owned by the catholic church).
> 
> cheers, 
> Martin 
> 
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[1] http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=religious#map
[2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?relation=186579#map=18/45.49915/-122.61703
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