Talk:Tag:landuse=churchyard

Churchyard is often a Graveyard

This definition begins Used to map the area surrounding a ... church ..., particularly when this does not contain a graveyard. Yet the first thing I discover when I visit the linked Wikipedia article for Churchyard is that a churchyard will frequently contain a graveyard. It has only been in the last century or so that the practice of burying people in a separate cemetery, often for public health reasons, has arisen. My dictionary goes so far in the opposite direction to state that that the grounds around a church, used as a graveyard are the churchyard. Given the degree of confusion this might cause and the fact that we already have the tag amenity=grave_yard and the tag landuse=religious doesn't the tag landuse=churchyard become redundant? I think this term should be deprecated. - Huttite (talk) 01:01, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Yes, landuse=churchyard is unnecessary. --Polarbear w (talk) 16:51, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Merge with landuse=religious

I think, as other people have said, that this should be merged with landuse=religious. But it would be good to agree on a way to do that. landuse=religious + religion=christian maybe? A problem with that could be that not every single Christian religious area might be a churchyard. what do folk think? --Meadowgreen (talk) 12:06, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Tagging a churchyard as landuse=religious + religion=christian is a churchyard if it surrounds a node or building with amenity=place_of_worship + religion=christian, so that's not a problem, except that it takes an extra tag. However, since "churchyard" can mean "graveyard", it's probably best to avoid using this tag, so I would agree that landuse=religious or amenity=grave_yard + religion=christian would be clearer. --Jeisenbe (talk) 12:28, 2 August 2019 (UTC)