[Tagging] RFC: Removal of Eruvs from OSM, and further boundry=religious

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Sep 6, 2022, 20:40 by me at evancarroll.com:

> * EXCLUSION IN OSM: An Eruv excludes community members of other religions and non-believers from engaging in a dispute. Further, an Eruv requires renting all non-Jews' homes in a ceremonial lease with the government to use non-Jews property, potentially against their consent. Including other (non-Jews) place of worship. To the extent that a religion requires excluding other religions, do we want this in OSM?
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This is weird claim. Even if eruvs are somehow bad: are you really proposing to
delete from map all bad things because they are bad?

If yes - then I am confused why you started with eruvs of all things.

> * DISPUTE RESOLUTION: It gives us no method of dispute resolution. If one person or a group of people get to say it's right _because_ they said so, we have a problem. We should avoid these situations. Presumably, we don't want to handle ecclesiastical differences on the tagging list.
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As pointed out Eruvs require - by definition - physical presence.

I would not oppose deprecation of nonphysical boundary=religious  (maybe even support),
though I bet that it would not pass.

But this arguments seem to not work really well here.
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