"I have no problem to additionally add amenity=place_of_worship or
appropriate tag to the area."


It is absurd to tag parking as amenity=place_of_worship or include it in
this area - it is not a place
of worship. Maybe landuse=religious has problems, but it is a better
solution for cases like this.

2015-02-17 23:32 GMT+01:00 Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org>:

> fly wrote on 2015-02-17 23:12:
>
>> I still do not understand, why we can not use religion=* without any
>>>> landuse.
>>>>
>>>
>>> on which area description?
>>>
>>
>> I have no problem to additionally add amenity=place_of_worship or
>> appropriate tag to the area.
>>
>
> I have.
>
>  The same is true for supermarket with there
>> own area including parking. No problem to tag the whole area
>> shop=supermarket. For buildings we have building=*.
>>
>
> I have a problem with this method. DIY markets here do their
> trading within the building and fenced outdoor areas. That's the
> shop, within and without building. Together with facilities like
> car parks, often shared among shops, they form the landuse=retail.
>
>
>> Maybe we just lack of a proper tag to describe the area but
>> landuse=religious is a poor answer.
>>
>> Anyway, we probably need more of the primary tags anyway as people look
>> at things from different perspectives and we already have the same
>> scenario with landuse=forest vs natural=woods vs land_cover=tree.
>>
>>  As far as I understand there can be only one landuse but neither the
>>>> proposal nor the wiki page really faces the problem especially regarding
>>>> deprecating other landuse like cemetery without offering a replacement.
>>>>
>>>
>>> it is probably for historic reasons that cemetery slipped into the
>>> landuse category. It would be logical to migrate it to amenities, such
>>> as graveyard.
>>>
>>
>> I understand landuse=cementry as a land use but not religious. Anyway we
>> are using amenity=hospital for the whole area without any use of landuse.
>>
>
> There are plenty of cemeteries that are dominated by a particular religion.
>
> The general problem I see is that people cite historic inconsistencies in
> the
> current tagging scheme as arguments against improvements.
>
> tom
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