In my mind there is a conceptual difference between formally defined administrative areas and informal catchment areas. For the former, there is (somewhere) a documented source of "the truth", whereas there is no official document to describe the delivery area of a pizza restaurant. Religious administration is formalised (at least for the christian churches), and is therefore verifiable. Same for health care areas, emergency services etc. These will be defined and documented by some "higher authority". As such, I would think they are in the same category of boundary as government administrative areas and would not be out of place in OSM. The freedom to "make an exception" is very limited, if it exists at all; changes to these areas go through some kind of formal process and are fairly rare. Even schools (in the UK at least) often use a "catchment area" defined by postcode areas. A pizza delivery service is however always free to make an exception as it sees fit.
Colin On 2012-12-03 10:20, Pieren wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Christopher Baines <cbain...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After more consideration, and the helpful feedback from the list. I have revised the proposal [1]. It now uses a boundary relation. Once again, does anyone have any comments? 1: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Catchment [1] > > About place_of_worship, check this old (and in use) proposal: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:FrViPofm/Tag:boundary%3Dreligious_administration [2] > > boundary=religious_administration + admin_level=8 for the smallest > > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging [3] Links: ------ [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Catchment [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:FrViPofm/Tag:boundary%3Dreligious_administration [3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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