On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Dave Swarthout <[email protected]>wrote:
> Here in Thailand we're having an extended discussion about towers that are > associated with temples. I would suggest using man_made=tower in > conjunction with tower:type=bell_tower for your situation. Our discussion > is stuck on whether such structures are really towers and not monuments but > in recent times we have used tower:type=stupa to describe the particular > man_made towers that are associated with Buddhist temples or wats. > > It would be nice to gain some consistency in the description of these > common structures. > > > This seems to be the best direction, I want to hear more. I know the lure of finding proper name for everything instead of being general, but remember we use "highway" to name roads. I've tagged man_made=campaniles, and did so after deciding that there was no real difference between a klockstapel and a campanile. Things are so different between cultures and languages so unless you have someone with a good theory on how to calssify these towers I would say that the more general the better. See discussion about man_made=pier For me man_made=campanile is a free standing tower adjacent to a building that might be religous, and probably contains a clock. Does that cover all use cases? /Erik
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