Hey guys - I had a question about tagging "wayside shrines." The wiki > posits that they are Christian, but I want to use them for another > religion. >
The wiki does not posit that they are Christian, on the contrary: There is a subtag religion and the text says: "Frequently found along the way in Germany, Austria, Italy and probably elsewhere" and refers to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine where the second picture is a shrine in Tokyo. But I don't like the "historic=" tag, because in other contexts it referes to he past use of a building or other object, whereas many wayside_shrines are recent and still in use. This led me to think about other religion-neutral tags main tags, and using > a subtag for the object. > > here in Japan, there are probably tens of thousands of reeeaally small > (Shinto) shrines and (occasionally Buddhist) temples. They are usually > along roads, but sometimes hiking trails as well. The shinto ones are > usually for natural beauty - this one is probably for this waterfall, > though I could be mistaken. This one is 2mx2m. if you open it, there is > just stuff inside, there isn't room for a person. This one is also fairly > elaborate, with a gate, bridge and stairway, but others are just a small > shed (sometimes less than 1m sq) and disused. If it wasn't religious, I'd > tag most of them as a simple shed. They get placed all over, but here in > rural Japan I find them on mountainsides, hilltops, and near bridges and > lakes. In theory, besides the buddhist statuses and shinto gates, there are > also really really tiny shines, about the size of a large trash can as > well, but right now I'm just talking of something similar to what is in the > picture. > > To me, this is also a "wayside shrine." Am I right? > I would use historic=wayside_shrine for the small shrines, whereas place of worship for the bigger ones. > > Man_made=cross or historic=wayside_cross similarly is geared for Christian > religion, > This is clearly not religion-neutral and I would like to see some neutral tags for these objects but there are millions upon millions of Shinto Gates and small figures of > Buddha (ones you wouldn't think of as "statues", like the big copper buddha > at Kamakura) - but the existing tags are not religious-neutral and paired > with the religion tag or a subtag to handle these; ie > manmade=ReligiousSymbol, religiousSymbol= Wayside Cross, Shinto Gate, > Buddha Statue, Spaghetti Meatball, etc.... > > I know that There must be many other symbols in other religions used > regionally that I don't know of, so having an expanding sub-tag is better > than filling up historic=, building=, and manmade= with more and more > narrow tags as OSM gets more detail added from non-christian areas. > I agree with this proposal. It would also eliminate the doubts which I always have when entering a brand-new "historic=wayside_shrine" or wayside_cross Volker Padova, Italy
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