[Tagging] Change of rendering: place of worship and, terminal without building tag

Tom Pfeifer t.pfeifer at computer.org
Tue Feb 17 21:40:43 UTC 2015


Andreas Goss wrote on 2015-02-17 22:02:
 > If people really continute to use this tag I will use it for everything
 > run by the chatholic church in Germany, after all they are the largest
 > private land owner... Then they can have fun with their "church yards".

the tag is about land_use_, not land_ownership_
AFAIK we do not want to tag ownership in OSM.


fly wrote on 2015-02-17 22:14:
> I still do not understand, why we can not use religion=* without any
> landuse.

on which area description?

> As far as I understand there can be only one landuse but neither the
> proposal nor the wiki page really faces the problem especially regarding
> deprecating other landuse like cemetery without offering a replacement.

it is probably for historic reasons that cemetery slipped into the
landuse category. It would be logical to migrate it to amenities, such
as graveyard.

tom




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