[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - holy well

[Anne-Karoline Distel]

I understand it's a bit of a tricky one. Wishing wells/ fountains mostly
used by tourists should not count, because there is not an established
religion behind that thinking of leaving a coin for good luck. They are
all votive offerings though, no matter if they are rags or coins or
whatever else people leave there (probably masks now, I haven't been to
a site since lockdown).

Good rule of thumb: If it has a saint's name attached, it's a holy well.
Or rather "holy well".

Anne

Am 18/02/2021 um 16:04 schrieb Volker Schmidt:
> Interesting idea.
> But difficult to define.
> There is a wide spectrum from really sacred places, like chapels with
> a spring inside to the wells or fountains where people go with plastic
> bottles
> to collect "good" or "healthy" water.and the wells that tourists fill
> with coins (no drinking water there).
> I would rather see this somehow under the tourism tent - pilgrimage is
> the original form of tourism.
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> On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 14:42, Anne-Karoline Distel
> <annekadistel at web.de <mailto:annekadistel at web.de>> wrote:
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>     It's me again, full of ideas.
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>     I propose a tag for holy wells, one of the reasons being that my local
>     council wants them mapped and I've been trying to convince them to use
>     OSM for a while. Also, because it would entice rural mappers to get
>     started and because they play a role in tourism (if you count
>     pilgrimage
>     as tourism).
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>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/holy_well
>     <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/holy_well>
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>     I'm especially interested in other religions' perspective, but I don't
>     know if this phenomenon exists outside Christianity and Paganism.
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>     Cheers,
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>     Anne
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