Mateusz,

You should use historic=wayside_shrine for wayside shrines, regardless of
whether they are historic or not.
Just like the tag amenity=place_of_worship is used even on grounds of
gnostic or atheist religions.

Cheers,
John


2014-08-19 12:52 GMT-03:00 Mateusz Konieczny <matkoni...@gmail.com>:

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> 2014-08-19 17:23 GMT+02:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org>:
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> Mateusz Konieczny wrote, on 2014-08-19 16:45:
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>>  How one should tag wayside shrine that is not historic?
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>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wayside_shrine is not providing
>>> an answer.
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>> That question was asked 2010 already on the discussion page.
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>> I agree that 'historic' is ambiguous in the first place, since
>> it does not specify if historic means old vs. recently built,
>> or out of use vs. still being used.
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>> Secondly, they are certainly being used for acts of worshipping,
>> historic or not, e.g. when sitting in a bus in Greece I see
>> people worshipping even when the vehicle just passes by.
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>> Thus combining amenity=place_of_worship with the appropriate
>> building tag  building=wayside_[shrine|cross] appears plausible.
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>> Is is important here to give the renderer a clue at which zoom
>> level to draw it, since amenity=place_of_worship is currently
>> heavily used for buildings of significant size such as
>> churches/temples/mosques (376000 as nodes and 232000 as ways,
>> only 33% having a building tag).
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>> This would also emphasise to limit the use of
>> amenity=place_of_worship to the actual place that is used
>> for the worshipping, i.e. the weekly/daily congregation,
>> and the individual praying;
>> and not for larger areas/campuses around such places,
>> where I prefer landuse=religious
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> As there is currently no clear tag, I would suggest man_made=wayside_shrine
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