[Talk-in] How to tag Sacred Groves (Devrai) in OSM?

2015-08-10 Thread Devdatta Tengshe
I was asked this question by Nikhil, who works on open Data in Pune, and I thought I should post this question to the OSM India Mailing list A Devrai (Sacred Grove) is many things at once: 1. A place of worship 2. A patch of forest / woodland 3. A community-led biodiversity conservation hotspot

Re: [Talk-in] How to tag Sacred Groves (Devrai) in OSM?

2015-08-10 Thread Arun Ganesh
This is amazing, never knew about something like this. Details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_groves_of_India The most appropriate tag might be: boundary=protected_area + protect_class=21 [1] which is for areas protected for religious reasons. This along with an appropriate natural tag like