David Earl wrote: > I think the original distinction was that a graveyard is the burial > ground around a church, while a cemetery is a separate pice of land set > aside for burials, not necessarily associated with a church, or a > denomination - in the UK, many of these are operated by local > authorities not religious institutions, while the graveyard around a > church is exclusive to the church. > > Having said that, I kind of agree with you, that the distinction is > subtle and probably adds little.
Apparently someone overestimated the importance of little details that could well have been expressed by an additional tag. There is hardly a good reason for most applications - and for most mappers - to differentiate, so this doesn't warrant a different top-level tag. Is there still some chance to get them merged? Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
