[talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

[John Smith]

On 5 July 2010 20:06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which we're not. There is no "on the ground" rule, guideline, axiom,
> suggestion or anything. Can we stop using this non-existent guiding
> principle?

Ok, if we're not tagging physical objects what are we tagging? The
gold brick road to Oz?

> Yep, this strategy would definitely break down. Although I do think
> "place of worship" is a little bit special.

Shouldn't the amount of use be more defining?

What if it's used for basketball 5 days a week, but church for one
hour on Sundays?

> The 4 options Roy presented all seem somewhat reasonable, but we need
> to make this kind of decision once, on a big scale: "OSM now supports
> semicolon-separated value lists: developers please take note". Not
> just piecemeal for each individual situation where the current
> key=value structure is limiting.

OSM has for a long time supported semi-colon separated, but most
software doesn't bother to parse it.