[OSM-talk] religion and places_of_worship

graham graham at theseamans.net
Sat Nov 3 00:01:58 GMT 2007


Frederik Ramm wrote:

> 
> Just checked and I see that the mosque in question is tagged
> "religion=moslem" which I don't recognize as a valid English name of
> the religion but correct me if I'm wrong.

It is, but I think it is me showing my age. My fault for not checking. I
will change the spelling.

> 
> Maybe the Osmarender code should be changed to allow a wide range of
> misspelled religion names, and in the end should not default to the
> church symbol but something else.

Yes, I was thinking that rather than attempt to cover every possible
religion, some more neutral symbol might be possible. A pair of praying
hands, for example; although I know different religions do use different
hand positions, as far as I know the differences don't have such strong
connotations
as symbols like the crescent or the cross.

Thanks
Graham

> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 





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