I'm not sure in other jurisdictions, but in government land use maps I've seen, there is usually an institutional land use category. Maybe for the land use planning purposes of the government, it doesn't make sense to differentiate the different types of institutions. In OSM, I guess we could break it down.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:53 AM, John F. Eldredge <j...@jfeldredge.com>wrote: > The landuse=religious seems like a good compromise. Landuse=institutional > seems a bit too generic, as there are so many different types of > institutions. > > -------Original Email------- > Subject :Re: [OSM-talk] Place of worship > From :mailto:sea...@gmail.com > Date :Fri Aug 20 21:38:06 America/Chicago 2010 > > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer < > dieterdre...@gmail.com <mailto:dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 2010/8/20 Eugene Alvin Villar <sea...@gmail.com <mailto:sea...@gmail.com> > >: > > > You're being too literal with "worship" part of "place_of_worship". We > have > > highway=steps and stairways are definitely not highways. > > > Amenity=place_of_worship is IMO to be taken literally: it is about > worshipping (mosque, church, temple, synagogue, ...) and not about > church as institution and their property. > > Looking at your example I agree that it is probably appropriate there, > because the whole sanctuary is the place of worship (and the single > churches will then be other pow inside the big one?). > > cheers, > Martin > > Maybe we need a landuse=institutional or landuse=religious to tag these > things. I simply applied amenity=place_of_worship to the whole grounds since > I couldn't tag the land with anything else remotely appropriate. The > Santuario is the whole place and not just the one specific building where > services are held. > > Move the discussion to the tagging mailing list? >
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