[Talk-GB] QP4: Places of Worship and Cemeteries

[Michael Collinson]

While it does not cover the special case of a 
church-that-is-still-very-occassionally-used-as-place-of-workship, a 
useful way of recording a "used to be a" building is simply to put 
historic=building (not a formally accepted value), a description=Former 
xxx and perhaps a date_start if known.  Every other building in my part 
of rural Yorkshire seems to be Former Methodist chapel. Useful for apps 
bring to life a neighbourhood culturally and historically but otherwise 
does not get in the way of current life.

Mike

On 16/10/2023 17:57, Russ Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 at 16:42, Dave F via Talk-GB
> <talk-gb at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
>> On 16/10/2023 08:52, Ken Kilfedder wrote:
>>   > ... and I think if the building still resembles a typical church from
>> the outside, you should still have building=church along with
>> building:use=apartments or building:use=house.
>>
>> No.
>>
>> 1. OSM is a map of current entities. https://www.openstreetmap.org/welcome
>>
>> 2. It's purely subjective as to what what someone perceives a church. or
>> any other building, should look like.
> I do broadly agree with you here, but what Ken describes is the
> currently-accepted tagging practice as stated on the wiki:
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:building
>
> Cheers,
>