2015-02-15 13:44 GMT+01:00 John Willis <jo...@mac.com>: > Landuse=religious is a generic version of churchyard. >
I agree that a churchyard could have a dedicated tag like amenity=churchyard (similar to amenity=graveyard) or historic=churchyard. IMHO "landuse" shouldn't define a feature, but be used as an attribute (the usage of the land). > > I can think of several large church complexes in California - a massive > Mormon temple, a Presbyterian church ground a with a small preschool, a > couple Catholic Churches, a Jehovah's Witness hall, a big mega-church hall, > a cult-like church that meets in a house (registered as a church so it > shows up in google maps as one), a mosque, a Greek Orthodox something > church, a Jewish community center, and now about 100 Buddhist temples and > Shinto shrines. > let's take a look at the community center: do we want different landuse for a community center operated by a religious community compared to a profane one? (This is a question we have to ask ourselves in order to find tagging definitions, it is not a rhetorical question). Shall we have different landuses for schools operated by a religious community compared to a government school? Just as a sidenote: if I were to tag all residential places in Rome which belong to the catholic church, 25% of Rome would be "landuse=religious". So far I have simply added religion=christian, denomination=catholic to universities, schools and kindergardens operated by the catholic church, because they are mainly universities, schools and kindergardens, not religious places in my eyes. There are also banks operated by the church, is this "religious" landuse? So far I have not experienced a problem with adding "religion" and "denomination" tags to features operated by a religious community and have continued to use the same landuse I'd use otherwise on the same kind of feature (if any). What would I gain by adding "landuse=religious"? cheers, Martin
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