[OSM-talk] Place of worship

[Rory McCann]

On 19/08/10 18:32, Pierre-Alain Dorange wrote:
> I got a question about religious tags.
> 
> There is amenity=place_of_worship (1) for church, temple, mosque,
> synagogue... (adding the religion and denomination if needed)
> 
> For convent, monestary and generally religious place but not open to the
> public there is no "official" tag. I just found a proposition (2) to tag
> building=convent, building=monastery, buiding=seminary and even a
> building=church (?)...
> There is also a historic=monastery (3) but it seems to apply only to old
> monastery not used nowday...
> 
> Do i miss something or is there other tag ?
> 
> (1) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dplace_of_worship
> (2) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/building
> (3) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:historic%3Dmonastery
> 

I believe someone in the Irish community (CCed) was suggesting using
'religious' as 'things that are religious but aren't a place of worship'.

Rory
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