On Jul 17, 2014, at 7:20 AM, Janko Mihelić <jan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> landuse=japanese_temple_grounds, or landuse=buddhist_temple_grounds, or maybe 
> something nicer.



My Parent's presbyterian Church in San Diego has a very large chapel building, 
a religious pre-school & kindergarten, a meeting hall, the church office 
building, and a playground for the preschool.  There is one sign and one 
driveway on the street for the whole thing. 

Covering the church offices, the meeting hall and the Pre-school with land-use 
"place of worship" is wrong. It is land-use religious (they are not a company), 
and the chapel itself is a place of worship, The offices are tagged a offices, 
the school tagged as a kindergarten, playground, etc, all encompassed by the 
single land use named Trinity Presbyterian Church". 

Just as we separate strain stations and platform - the station is there to 
provide access and service patrons of the platform, but it isn't where you get 
on the train. 

The church's facilities are "part of the church", and serve the churches needs, 
but it isn't where you do your praying and listen to the sermon. 



> We don't have to mash all cultures together in one-size-fits-all tags.

Specific tags are less-used tags. I notice we don't have natural=cherry_tree, 
or natural=Supertall_Redwood_Tree,  just natural=tree. Goes on all the trees. 

Generic tags with additional info are more flexible.

There are a ton of Jehovah's witness buildings around the world, but there is 
no "JW_Kingdom_hall_grounds tag either.

This is why we use generic tags with more specific sub-tags - to avoid this 
kind of messy religion-based taggery.  

narita: 
name=naritasan landuse=religion  religion=buddhist;shinto  see? easy as pie. 

BTW Buddhist is all over asia, not Just Japan, so there would be buddhist 
temples from Japan to Afghanistan - I bet a feeeew of them are mixed-use 
outside of Japan . Shinto is their homegrown religion, and because of political 
power struggles a long time ago, Buddhist and shinto buildings often are forced 
to share the same community grounds - more mixing!! Do I make a specific 
landuse for each case ( B, S, B+S) or do I use the elegant semicolon with the 
religion tag? I think the answer is clear.  Then tag the buildings with 
amenity=place_of_worship and religon=__ to match. 

Tag the building or the area as the amenity if that is all it is, but mixed use 
areas need a more flexible landuse, without betraying the purpose (it's not 
commercial, residential, industrial, or retail). Same reason I want a 
landuse=civic tag. 

There are plenty of religious places that are more than a church and a parking 
lot, in both the western and eastern hemispheres.




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