[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - holy well

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:31:56 +0000
Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadistel at web.de> wrote:

> 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.

I strongly disagree. That's not different to what "religions" "offer":
feeling better by doing something irrational because someone else
pretends it has a positive effect.
However, I agree with you that in the OSM data model it fits better into
the realm of place_of_worship than tourism and since it does not perturb
other tags related to wells I think the proposed scheme is OK.

However, I think it might make more sense to include more historic
sites that I think are excluded by the current proposal, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuragic_holy_well
historic=water_well might very well fit the "holy" wells in ireland too?
They are definitely nothing new :)
In any case, the handling of such places should be covered in the
proposal text IMHO.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner