[OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

[Roy Wallace]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Craig Wallace<craigw84 at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> Shouldn't the fact that they are next to / around a church be obvious
> from the church marked on the map? And the cemetery can be tagged with
> the operator / religion / denomination as appropriate.

+1

> Also, I notice (according to Map Features on the wiki)
> amenity=grave_yard can apply to a node or an area, whereas
> landuse=cemetery is supposed to be just for areas.
> Though amenity=grave_yard on a node doesn't seem to rendered at all (on
> Mapnik or Osmarender), but landuse=cemetery on a node does render the
> name (but no symbol).
> On areas, both appear to be rendered identically.

Forget about the renderer.

But I would support any proposal that merges these and includes
complementary tags to explicitly specify differences as necessary.