[Talk-us] dubious church node

John F. Eldredge john at jfeldredge.com
Fri Sep 29 23:26:49 UTC 2017


OSM Item 356845407 is a node supposedly marking the location of a church 
named "Mill Creek Church", at coordinates 36.0972810, -86.7027754 
<http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/36.0972810/-86.7027754>. The node 
history shows two changesets making edits to the node, but no changeset 
for the creation of the node. It has these tags:

amenity
	place_of_worship 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=place%20of%20worship?uselang=en-US> 

ele <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:ele?uselang=en-US> 	145
gnis:county_id 	037
gnis:created 	05/19/1980
gnis:feature_id 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:gnis:feature%20id?uselang=en-US> 
	1306749
gnis:state_id 	47
name <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:name?uselang=en-US> 	Mill 
Creek Church
religion <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:religion?uselang=en-US> 
	christian 
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:religion=christian?uselang=en-US>

I became curious about this, as aerial photos in Google Earth do not 
show a church there. I drove to these coordinates, and determined that 
they are for a loading dock on the back of an industrial warehouse. 
There are no signs indicating that any congregation meets there; the 
warehouse appears to be in active commercial use. Should I remove this 
node? -- John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com "Darkness cannot drive 
out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only 
love can do that." -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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