[OSM-talk] Correct tagging of church grounds

[Dermot McNally]

2008/8/29 robin paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>:

> or why not 'amenity=place_of_worship' defined on the entire area, with
> smaller areas of building, car park, etc? that's what it's for, after all

That's not actually clear, though with consensus, it could become
accepted as the best approach. It's certainly clear that it's valid to
position a node at the location of a church building and tag it
amenity=place_of_worship, because a church is such a place. Likewise
(and this is what I did in this instance), you could map the outline
of the church and tag the outline in the same way. It's still
referring to the church, only in greater detail.

I don't see that the perimeter of the entire church complex is a place
of worship. To return to Old Trafford for a minute, it is a stadium in
the centre of which there is a pitch. You wouldn't tag the entire
complex as a pitch any more than you should tag a whole church grounds
as a place of worship.

Dermot

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