On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > How would you describe it?
Here goes... > If there are 30 graves (often even 100 years old) directly near a church > that's very certainly a grave_yard IMHO. amenity=cemetery cemetery:capacity=30 cemetery:year_span=1800-1900 If it is affiliated with/related to a nearby church, how about using either a relation with the amenity=place_of_worship (preferable), or cemetery:affiliation=Ye Olde Church > If there are thousands of WWI graves I certainly would tag these as a > landuse=cemetery amenity=cemetery cemetery:capacity=3000 cemetery:year_span=1914-1918 cemetery:dedication=WWI Note that the above examples are to demonstrate that, even if you perceive a cemetery to be different to a grave_yard, it is still possible (and IMHO preferable) to use a common tag and specify the differences explicitly. If anyone actually thinks the above tagging scheme is a good idea, well, that's a bonus. By the way, I think a cemetery is better described as an amenity, not a landuse, as I think it is "a useful and important facility" moreso than "an area of land used by people" (from the wiki definitions of Key:amenity and Key:landuse). _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
