[OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

[Richard Weait]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Valent
Turkovic<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/graveyard
>
> This page is old/unfinished and very ambiguous. Can somebody make
> clear how to tag cemeteries, and how to name them correctly?
>
> If I have polygon do I add name= to polygon or do I add a point in the
> middle of cemetery with amenity=cemetery and name=name ?

I have been using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dcemetery
landuse=cemetery
and adding name to the polygon (and  or religious affiliations) where
appropriate.

No need for a separate point as far as I can see.