[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - holy well

Bert -Araali- Van Opstal bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 00:45:06 UTC 2021


In those cases I would start mapping with landuse=religious still
existing tag and very suitable in combination with religion=* and
denomination=*. Add nodes for whatever you want to map in detail.

On 19/02/2021 03:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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> sent from a phone
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>> On 19 Feb 2021, at 01:09, Bert -Araali- Van Opstal
>> <bert.araali.afritastic at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> There are religions where a place of worship is not a building, but a
>> natural feature.
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> I am well aware of this, but we’re speaking about religion=christian
> here, so it seems straight to apply christian requirements for place
> of worship. I am not sure a building is required for a christian place
> of worship, I guess not, although other sites are definitely
> exceptions. For example a quick search has yielded this result, which
> btw is near a holy
> well: https://www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/O-83218-20140108-3
> The text says it is supposedly a Germanic ritual site.
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> AFAIK there is the consecrated ground concept (for example a church
> that gets disused can become desecrated), maybe this is the thing to
> look at when deciding the well tags? We’re using its limits when
> drawing the pow polygon for a church place of worship.
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> Cheers Martin 
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