[OSM-talk] religion and places_of_worship

[Mike Collinson]

At 12:02 AM 3/11/2007, Abigail Brady wrote:
>On Nov 2, 2007 10:40 PM, Frederik Ramm <<mailto:frederik at remote.org>frederik at remote.org> 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.
>
>
>'moslem' is an old-fashioned transliteration of the term - certainly should be rendered. 
> 
>
>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.

It would be good also to add religion=islam.  A muslim/moslem strictly refers to person not the religion itself if I remember my arabic.

Mike
Stockholm 
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