>> "only a few of the religious buildings can be concidered landmarks. In my home city it is 1 of 5" > Here in the New World, the proportion of significant churches is similarly low in many places. > Using Cincinnati, Ohio, and its surrounding county as an example, only 25% of OSM-tagged > religious buildings could be considered historic.
In Poland nearly all churches are landmarks, what is not changed by fact that small part of them is historic (for example: recently constructed church in Ochotnica Górna - https://www.google.pl/maps/@49.5114794,20.2478019,3a,75y,248.68h,78.69t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sC9_0FPJ_m3iUJAKpjMLQ9w!2e0?hl=pl http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=49.5115&mlon=20.2458#map=15/49.5115/20.2458&layers=N ) 2014-11-29 2:41 GMT+01:00 Minh Nguyen <m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>: > On 2014-11-28 14:37, Mihkel Rämmel wrote: > >> By making all religious buildings highly visible on the current >> buildings demo style it makes a great style to use when you want to >> visit all the religious places nearby but nothing else. I do not know >> about the rest of the world but at least in a typical eastern european >> city only a few of the religious buildings can be concidered >> landmarks. In my home city it is 1 of 5. >> > > Here in the New World, the proportion of significant churches is similarly > low in many places. Using Cincinnati, Ohio, and its surrounding county as > an example, only 25% of OSM-tagged religious buildings could be considered > historic. > > overpass turbo shows 201 ways in the county that are tagged > amenity=place_of_worship, amenity:historic=place_of_worship, or > building=church. (We're starting to use specific building tags like =church > around here, but we aren't quite there yet.) By comparison, only 45 > churches and five synagogues have Wikipedia articles [1] and only 33 > buildings with "church", "chapel", "cathedral", or "temple" in their names > are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] By comparison, > Wikipedia has more articles on high schools in the same county. [3] > > If you include the 460 place-of-worship POIs that could someday be > remapped as building footprints, the statistic would drop to less than 8%. > (We've already deleted or retagged GNIS-imported churches marked > "historic".) > > The Cincinnati-Middletown metropolitan statistical area was ranked 71st > most religious in a 2012 Gallup poll of 189 U.S. MSAs. Granted, that's a > measure of the importance residents place on religion, not the city's > church architecture. But there are plenty of places in this country where > churches are even less important. > > I don't dispute that churches are important to navigation in many older > cities, particularly in Europe. But openstreetmap-carto contributors have > always reiterated the importance of keeping regional styles to a minimum. > The other building types included in the buildings-major layer > (supermarket, mall, attraction) each have an inherent largeness or > importance, but globally, churches aren't necessarily large or key to > wayfinding. (What about building=mosque, building=temple, etc.?) > > [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Churches_in_ > Hamilton_County,_Ohio> > [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_ > Historic_Places_listings_in_Hamilton_County,_Ohio> > [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:High_schools_in_ > Hamilton_County,_Ohio> > > -- > m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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