[OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

[Valent Turkovic]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Richard Weait<richard at weait.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok, I got two answers which are different, as with the wiki it is
really not clear to me how to map it correctly.

Is grave_yard tag used? I don't see it in JOSM. Why is the wiki so
confusing for this simple thing to map.

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