[Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

[sk53.osm]

Yes, churchyard doesn't work very well for non-Christian sites, and indeed
many christian ones. Quaker meeting houses are not usually described as
churches.

I could live with landuse=religious_precinct, but not precinct per se.
First off our US members will instantly start mapping votiing districts and
the Kennedy 'precinct' with the tag thus making it as meaningless as their
use of place=hamlet. Secondly its general use is pretty much American
English. Lastly, other meanings as listed on Wikipedia give scope for
ambiguity.

Any extension of place_of_worship with (_precinct) or (_grounds) seems
unusually clunky.

Jerry


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:41 PM, OpenStreetmap HADW <osmhadw at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > churchyard (probably the tag you are looking for landuse=churchyard, to
> > heavily used but in existence) instead of a church: you need one of the
>
> I was hoping for something with less Christian connotations.  Besides
> having a zero taginfor score, landuse=templeyard  (also temple_yard)
> is just balkanizing the tagging.  landuse=precinct
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precinct#Religion) might have been
> better, but that also has a zero score, and it is maybe not a well
> known term ("temple precinct" has 54,000 hits on Google, though
> (58,000 with church and 27,000 with cathedral).  Do I have a prima
> facie case for proposing precinct, here?
>
> I wonder if there is an efficient way to search for the immediate
> containing feature for building=temple, to find precedents.  I guess
> one can xapi the temples, then do a bounding box fetch around each.
>
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