Well, I actually tag the whole grounds of a church as amenity=place_of_worship and leave the building(s) as building=yes ignoring the fact that it looks awful on the Mapnik layer. For example: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/39724055
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Ed Loach <[email protected]> wrote: > Pierre-Alain wrote: > > > I got a question about religious tags. > > Not answering your question as such, but it would be nice if things > like amenity=hospital, amenity=school, amenity=place_of_worship and > others could be brought into some sort of common standard. > > Amenity=school is often used to mark the extent of the school > grounds with individual buildings being added with a building=* tag > (picking an example not by me http://osm.org/go/0esi...@t- ) > > I have seen hospitals similarly mapped (though sometimes I've seen a > building tagged with both building=hospital and amenity=hospital, > all on a larger area tagged amenity=hospital), or on its own. > > Amenity=place_of_worship though seems to be targeted specifically at > a building (node or closed way), so not (as) suitable for this as > schools and hospitals (especially with the current Mapnik style of > dark grey which hides any buildings on any amenity tagged areas > which I have seen somewhere once). > > There are probably more amenity values similar, though these are the > three that spring to mind. This has probably already been covered > before, here and on the wiki, but I would say the above are > candidates to be dropped from amenity= and have both a landuse= for > the area and a building= equivalent for each. I realise there are > loads in the database, editors have presets, lots of people are > using them already, but standardising on their usage would make > things easier for newer mappers to pick up and presumably consumers > of the data. > > It's a minor annoyance which is why I mention it. It's not a big > enough annoyance for me to start suggesting major changes unless > other people think it worthwhile and achievable. > > Ed > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > -- http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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