[OSM-talk] amenity = place_of worship, identifying a religion

[David Earl]

I noticed when looking elsewhere that some people have used
 denomination=catholic
 denomination=methodist
etc. despite the documentation. Perhaps any global edit could correct these.

It's only a tag name so changing it seems a bit pointless to me, especially
as it's an English word and many contributors aren't English speakers. (c/f
discussion on tag naming earlier in th emonth).

David

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> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of David Groom
> Sent: 19 November 2006 22:38
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> Subject: [OSM-talk] amenity = place_of worship, identifying a religion
>
>
> The current way of identifying a religion for a place of worship
> is by use
> of the rather misleading denomination=christian|jewish|muslim|etc tag.
>
> It ahs been proposed on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/denomina
> tion that
> rather than denomination= it would be more appropriate to tag this as
> religion=christian|jewish|muslim|etc.
>
> I have just opened the voting on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/denomination to
> change the existing tag name.  As this is a proposed change to an
> existing
> tag I have decided to leave the voting open for three weeks, until 10
> December.
>
> If the vote for the change is agreed then I will instruct the
> change to be
> incorporated into
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:JLS/speller
> so that existing tags are changed.
>
> David
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