Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-31 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: new-fangled expensive wedding licences. Or telling my local vicar and his wife that they live in a place of worship. That does rather assume the right building has been marked! I've just come across a case where the OS have marked

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-31 Thread sk53.osm
Exactly why OS Street View should only be used as a guide, not gospel. On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, OpenStreetmap HADW osmh...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: new-fangled expensive wedding licences. Or telling my local vicar and his wife

[Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
The rules for places of worship differ from other amenities in that there is a strong diktat that only the actual building (where there is a building) should be tagged. This seems to be partially backed up by an assumption that all places of worship are medieval churches with graveyards, so that

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Thread Richard Fairhurst
OpenStreetmap HADW wrote: The rules for places of worship This is OpenStreetMap. We don't have rules. Stop placing so much trust in the wiki. :) cheers Richard -- View this message in context:

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Thread sk53.osm
The convention exists because the grounds in which a place of worship exists are rarely places of worship themselves. Try conducting a marriage in a churchyard (probably the tag you are looking for landuse=churchyardhttp://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/landuse=churchyard, to heavily used but in

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Thread OpenStreetmap HADW
On 28 August 2013 09:50, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: churchyard (probably the tag you are looking for landuse=churchyard, to heavily used but in existence) instead of a church: you need one of the I was hoping for something with less Christian connotations. Besides having a zero

Re: [Talk-GB] Grounds of Places of Worshiip when not Graveyards

2013-08-28 Thread sk53.osm
Yes, churchyard doesn't work very well for non-Christian sites, and indeed many christian ones. Quaker meeting houses are not usually described as churches. I could live with landuse=religious_precinct, but not precinct per se. First off our US members will instantly start mapping votiing