[OSM-talk] Place of worship

[Dermot McNally]

On 21 August 2010 03:53, John F. Eldredge <john at jfeldredge.com> wrote:
> The landuse=religious seems like a good compromise.  Landuse=institutional seems a bit too generic, as there are so many different types of institutions.

I was also looking to popularise landuse=religious. I hadn't had a
chance to document it yet, but it would work as suggested above, and
could, if useful, take the usual religion and denomination tags.
Since, as has also been mentioned, active monasteries, convents and
the like are also poorly served by the current tagging options, I
foresaw an optional tag to describe in more detail what kind of
religious installation is being tagged:

religious=convent
religious=abbey
religious=spaghetti_tree

Rendering for the land area could either be in some colour common to
all religious lands, or perhaps different colours based on the
religion tag might be useful for some purposes.

I prefer this specific approach over checking for a building tag
because a convent, seminary or whatever may well have a church on
site, and a holy well and a spaghetti tree.


Dermot

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