Isaac Wingfield wrote: >... >one I'm unsure about is when a location has a "place_of_worship" >designation, but on-site inspection reveals that there is no obvious >church there, or even a sign designating one. > >I've tried web searching on the names (wondering if the icons somehow >got displaced), but that's been very frustrating. It would appear that >a lot of "information sites", such as lists of churches offered by >religious organizations, take their data from the same obsolete >information sources that OSM used; they all point precisely to the >place where the OSM "church" icon is, where there is nothing >resembling a church.... > >So here's the question: It's easy enough to tell a golf club from an >industrial site just by walking past it, but a "place_of_worship" is >perhaps not so clear; could one by located in a private home, with no >external markers? If I find nothing but a house at a location where >OSM has a place_of_worship icon, can I just delete it? > >Isaac
I've run into the same situation on one or two occasions, where a place of worship from TIGER data was located in an obviously wrong location. One was in an open area that had never contained a structure, at least it the 45 years I have lived here. I looked for a reference in the phonebook, didn't find one, so deleted it. If it is located at or very near a public building, such as a school, YMCA building, etc., then it may very well be that the building is serving multifunctions. Often churches will rent space in a public building while in the process of constructing their own building. In that case I would do some checking first, I think, since the data may or may not be obsolete. If it's at a residence with no signage, and the data is a couple of years old, it's probably obsolete, even if it was correct at some point in the past. One possible situation is that the religious organization does not have a permanent location, and is using the leader, or another person's home address as a mailing address. I think I would be tempted to remove that POI anyway, since that is clearly not a place of public worship. As usual, others may differ. -- Randy _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
