[OSM-talk] religion and places_of_worship

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Gervase Markham wrote:
> 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?

Yes. I vote for Islam.

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

Yes, there are. Someone has a spelling correction tool that runs when
there is a new planet file. I have another method which I am testing.

>> 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?

It would make sense to have a generic landmark symbol, yes, but I think
it would also make sense to have a place of worship symbol for unknown
religions. Otherwise we'll have to define symbols for all of the
thousands of religions out there.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

>> 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 :-)

Agreed. It's fairly easy to find and fix them.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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