This is amazing, never knew about something like this. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_groves_of_India
The most appropriate tag might be: boundary=protected_area + protect_class=21 [1] which is for areas protected for religious reasons. This along with an appropriate natural tag like wood/scrub/wetland should suffice. [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area#Social-protected-area On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Devdatta Tengshe <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was asked this question by Nikhil, who works on open Data in Pune, and I > thought I should post this question to the OSM India Mailing list > > > A Devrai (Sacred Grove) is many things at once: > 1. A place of worship > 2. A patch of forest / woodland > 3. A community-led biodiversity conservation hotspot > > The continued preservation of many of these across the country has ensured > the survival of many species in regions where the rest of the area is > flattened farmland, water retention, etc. There is an ongoing effort by > some groups to identify and map these so they can be better placed to > protect them. > > There are specific names for different Sacred Groves, usually dedicated to > a particular deity or identified as the local area's devrai. > > How would one feed this information into OSM? > > > I could only figure out the following tags: > amenity place_of_worship > name Sacred Grove > > but these don't seem enough. So could you suggest other tags that can be > used? > > > -- > Regards, > Devdatta > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-in > > -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad> <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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