My thoughts exactly about those open structures that house bells; man_made=bell_cage (along with building=yes perhaps) would seem the best fit in those cases, especially seeing as that tag is already in use. As for adding subtypes to the tower:type tag, that seems an overly complicated way to go about it. I cannot imagine how long it would take renderers to catch up with such a scheme.
Moreover, isn't a campanile merely a type of bell_tower? Why would another special tower:type=campanile be necessary? I would push for: man_made=tower tower:type=bell_tower for all structures that are much taller than they are wide, i.e., towers, that also contain bells, including steeples and campaniles. For cases where you have a structure more like a house that contains bells, man_made=bell_cage building=yes Respectfully, Dave On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:13 AM, Frank Little <[email protected]> wrote: > Andreas Labres wrote: > >> >> For me those are rather synonym (but different regions/cultures obviously >> build >> them much different). >> >> In German the word "Glockenstapel" doesn't exist (at least in our >> latitude, >> 48°). The Nordic "Klockstapel" as well as the Italian "Campanile" >> translate to >> "Glockenturm" (which means bell tower) in German. >> >> As those are all towers, I'd prefer >> >> > man_made=tower > >> >> for all of them. And then I'd detail >> >> tower:type=belfry for those Nordic belfries >> > > tower:type=campanile for those stand-alone Italien Campaniles > > tower:type=bell_tower for any "ordinary" bell tower > >> >> Or even more extreme >> >> man_made=tower >> tower:type=bell_tower >> >> (as we probably agree those all are bell towers) and optionally >> >> > tower:subtype=belfry > >> tower:subtype=campanile >> /al >> > > Confusingly, some of the pictures on the wikipedia page for 'Klockstapel' > (Swedish) are not towers but open structures (and not very tall structures > at that). Similarly 'Klokkestabel' (Danish). Are these towers at all? They > look like the kind of thing which the bell_cage proposal was intended to > cover (and which have been used for such free-standing, non-tower bells > here in the Netherlands (Dutch: 'Klokkenstoel'). > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Bell_cage > I notice that the Dutch wikipedia page for Klokkenstoel links to a German > wikipedia page for Glockenstuhl. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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