[OSM-talk] Place of worship

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Well, I actually tag the whole grounds of a church as
amenity=place_of_worship and leave the building(s) as building=yes
ignoring the fact that it looks awful on the Mapnik layer. For example:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39724055


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Ed Loach <ed at loach.me.uk> wrote:

> Pierre-Alain wrote:
>
> > I got a question about religious tags.
>
> Not answering your question as such, but it would be nice if things
> like amenity=hospital, amenity=school, amenity=place_of_worship and
> others could be brought into some sort of common standard.
>
> Amenity=school is often used to mark the extent of the school
> grounds with individual buildings being added with a building=* tag
> (picking an example not by me http://osm.org/go/0ESiEzF@T- )
>
> I have seen hospitals similarly mapped (though sometimes I've seen a
> building tagged with both building=hospital and amenity=hospital,
> all on a larger area tagged amenity=hospital), or on its own.
>
> Amenity=place_of_worship though seems to be targeted specifically at
> a building (node or closed way), so not (as) suitable for this as
> schools and hospitals (especially with the current Mapnik style of
> dark grey which hides any buildings on any amenity tagged areas
> which I have seen somewhere once).
>
> There are probably more amenity values similar, though these are the
> three that spring to mind. This has probably already been covered
> before, here and on the wiki, but I would say the above are
> candidates to be dropped from amenity= and have both a landuse= for
> the area and a building= equivalent for each. I realise there are
> loads in the database, editors have presets, lots of people are
> using them already, but standardising on their usage would make
> things easier for newer mappers to pick up and presumably consumers
> of the data.
>
> It's a minor annoyance which is why I mention it. It's not a big
> enough annoyance for me to start suggesting major changes unless
> other people think it worthwhile and achievable.
>
> Ed
>
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