[OSM-talk] religion and places_of_worship

[Gervase Markham]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> 'moslem' is an old-fashioned transliteration of the term - certainly
>> should be rendered.
> 
> Ok, fixed.

Doesn't it make more sense to pick one spelling and use it consistently?

Do we have bots/scripts which can go through and standardise for us?

> I've also changed the style file to use the church symbol ONLY for
> religion=christian (and not as a default), and to use the same symbol
> used four mountain peaks (which is a little triangle pointing upwards)
> as a default symbol. That is certainly not the right symbol but at
> least it seems less wrong than using a church symbol for non-christian
> venues.

Would it make sense to have one specific generic "insufficiently 
specified landmark" symbol, perhaps involving a question mark, rather 
than having to reinvent a new symbol for an insufficiently-specified 
place of worship, an insufficiently-specified sports ground (which 
sport?), and so on?

> This will likely lead to complaints in places where people haven't
> bothered to put a religion=christian in the past and now see their
> churches being replaced by a triangle symbol. 

Tough :-)

Gerv