John Packer wrote, on 2014-08-26 16:57:
I'm not against landuse=religious, but I'm not satisfied with it's current description:The area surrounding a amenity=place_of_worship used for religious purposes I believe a tag such as landuse=religious is inevitably going to be used as indicating any kind of religious activity, not necessarily with amenity=place_of_worship. Also, I believe amenity=place_of_worship is enough for indicating the religious area in most cases.
Certainly the definition can be refined. I think it is important to be able to distinguish between * the place where actual acts of worshipping happen, such as weekly/daily congregations in churches/mosques/temples, or people praying in front of wayside shrines [amenity=place_of_worship], * and areas where priests are educated, live on church property next to the building, where church tax is counted and members are administered, where bell towers stand, etc. [landuse=religious] Further those churches/mosques/temples are often architecturally significant buildings that need to be distinguished from surrounding land even if it is owned by the church. This is recognised currently by strong dark rendering on the main map. Another aspect is that nowadays often churches are no longer used for religious purposes, but still being [building=church] architecture-wise, and could be re-activated if needed. Thus the comparison with [amenity=school], that can be easily expanded to the whole campus, fails for [amenity=place_of_worship]. Thus, an active church building should be tagged [amenity=place_of_worship] [building=church] [religion=*] and surrounded by [landuse=religious] [religion=*] while in church building out-of-religion would be, for example [amenity=theatre] [building=church] [theatre:genre=chamber_music] To conclude, [amenity=place_of_worship] should not be expanded to the full campus, and [landuse=religious] is a suitable, multicultural tag for this land, comparable to [landuse=retail] or [landuse=commercial] _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
