Craig Wallace schrieb: > On 09/09/2009 22:00, David Earl wrote: >> On 09/09/2009 21:43, Valent Turkovic wrote: >> >>> Is grave_yard tag used? I don't see it in JOSM. Why is the wiki so >>> confusing for this simple thing to map. >>> >> 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. > Though around here, quite a few of the graveyards next to churches are > operated by the council, and they are called "placename Cemetery" or > similar.
So what's the question now? >> Having said that, I kind of agree with you, that the distinction is >> subtle and probably adds little. >> > It seems like a fairly pointless and confusing distinction to me. > Shouldn't the fact that they are next to / around a church be obvious > from the church marked on the map? And the cemetery can be tagged with > the operator / religion / denomination as appropriate. Well, it's simply a bad thing to indicate stuff by something that's "nearby". What's nearby? 1m/10m/100m/1000m? Is it indicated by a place_of_worship, a building=church or xy? > Also, I notice (according to Map Features on the wiki) > amenity=grave_yard can apply to a node or an area, whereas > landuse=cemetery is supposed to be just for areas. > Though amenity=grave_yard on a node doesn't seem to rendered at all (on > Mapnik or Osmarender), but landuse=cemetery on a node does render the > name (but no symbol). > On areas, both appear to be rendered identically. Don't tag for the renderers ;-) Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
