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

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Earl" <david at frankieandshadow.com>
To: "OSM" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2006 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] amenity = place_of worship, identifying a religion


>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

except it will then allow the denomination tag to be correctly used for 
denomination=methodist|catholic etc

David

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
>> [mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org]On Behalf Of David Groom
>> Sent: 19 November 2006 22:38
>> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
>> 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
>>