[Tagging] landuse=religious and amenity=place of worship

[Tom Pfeifer]

A while ago I had identified the following use-cases / situations,
which I now extend and my preferred tagging to them.

Please note that the focus of "amenity=place of worship" should be
on a ceremonial place, while "landuse=religious" can comprise auxiliary structures.

Case 1
A building where worshipping ceremonies focus, surrounded by land which has a relation
to the religion, and holds structures that are not used for the act of worshipping.
The building often has architectural significance and stands out as a landmark.

Building: building=mosque, amenity=place_of_worship
Other buildings: building=* (according to specific function)
Land: landuse=religious

Case 2
Places of worshipping that are not focused on a particular building, the
ceremony is performed in a spacial manner, potentially in open space.

Land where the ceremony is performed: amenity=place_of_worship
If there is land around with auxiliary functions, e.g. as car parks: landuse=religious
That landuse could even hold multiple places_of_worship, as in johnw's
examples below.

Case 3
Land which has a relation to the religion, holding e.g. administrative office
buildings, seminar rooms, etc., but no particular building for worshipping
ceremonies.

Land: landuse=religious
Buildings: building=* (according to specific function)

Case 4
Buildings that were erected for worshipping, thus still have the
architectural significance and landmark character, but are now used for
secular purposes, such as concert theatres or climbing halls. Some could be
reactivated for the religious purpose by bringing the altar back.

Building: building=church, amenity=theatre

Case 5
Building that is used for ceremonial worshipping in dense urban environment,
with no dedicated land around, e.g. a church wall-to-wall in a row of
apartment buildings, thus the primary use of the land is residential:

Building: building=church, amenity=place_of_worship
Land around: landuse=residential

Case 6

Specific room for worshipping in a residential building,
with no land around dedicated to the religious purpose:

Building: building=residential
Node for the room: amenity=place_of_worship
Land around: landuse=residential


johnw wrote on 2015-01-06 23:03:
> I want landuse=religious to map all the buddhist and shinto temple complexes in Japan. some of them are huge, dotted with individual shrines, temples, sacred waterfalls, and maintained gardens.  even small local temples and shrines usually have more than a few things on their location (a few statures, a bell tower, garden, cemetery, and main temple building).
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> in the past, the shinto and buddhist temples were forced to share ground, so you get shinto stuff next to buddhist stuff in many places (which is why people follow a mix of shinto and buddhist practices in Japan), so it’s nice to have a “this place is religious” landuse, and individual POW for buildings/things that have their own name and religious tag.
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> Shinto is where you get weird stuff, like the married rocks, sacred trees, or the spot with an interesting natural feature that is ”worshipped” - but for the vast majority of the temples and shrines here, they are very similar to a western church grounds in feature party.
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> Javbw
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>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 3:41 AM, SomeoneElse <lists at atownsend.org.uk> wrote:
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>> On 06/01/2015 02:48, John Willis wrote:
>>> I thought tat was a feature, to actually deprecate the landuse from the buildings, so we don't have the similar issue again of a building and area rendered the same.
>>>
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>> (at the risk of going around in circles) in the Western Christian tradition, it's usually a building that most of the worshipping takes place within.  I wouldn't assume that this was the case with all religions, though - a non-building area may be an actual place of worship (and it may have buildings in it too).
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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Andy