Proposal:Route=Worship

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Stations of the Cross at Saint Jakob, Austria. This is a religious route where one prays at each of the shrines, so-called "stations".
The routes and stopping points of the Hajj in and around Mecca.
Route of worship
Proposal status: Draft (under way)
Proposed by: IIVQ
Tagging: route=worship
Applies to: relation
Definition: Tagging a religious route
Statistics:

Draft started: 2016-01-08
RFC start: 2016-01-17

Proposal

The relation tagged route=worship Osm element node no.svgOsm element way no.svgOsm element area no.svgOsm element relation.svg can be used for religious routes with several stops on its way where one can worship. It is the route-based complement of amenity=place_of_worshipOsm element node.svgOsm element way no.svgOsm element area.svgOsm element relation no.svg, which is meant for single places (nodes and areas, not ways and relations).

The tag is meant for routes in a public space (not enclosed inside a religious building or complex) that has several well-defined places along its way where one can stop for worship. The routes can be taken by any form of transport, usually on foot but optionally by bike, car, horse, public transit etc.

One example of such a route is the Roman Catholic Stations of the Cross. The Stations of the cross is a route consisting of (usually) 13 shrines depicting the crucifiction of Jesus, culminationg at a 14th shrine at a church.

Another example is the Hajj, although only one Hajj route, in Mecca, is available in the world.

Note that the route must not be religious; the worship can be towards a secular entity or person, such as a leader.

This proposal consists of the tagging of the relation, the tagging of the actual places of worship can be done with existing tags.

Rationale

There is no standard tag to map a Stations of the Cross route on OSM, although various methods have been used. Next to the Stations of the Cross, there are other types of Christian worshipping routes, and I can only assume they exist in other religions as well.

Prior work has been done by User:Waldhans on his user page user:Waldhans/Stations of the Cross, but he doesn't seem to have made a proposal proper outside of his user page. Also, the routes he has tagged (see examples) are not consistently tagged.

Examples

Alternative ways of tagging a Stations of the Cross route as a relation:

Tagging

The tagging of the relation is as such:

Key Value Commentreligious
type route required
route worship required
worship stations_of_the_cross/hajj/... optional type of worship. A (non-exhaustive) list of types of worship routes should be embedded in the final proposal; suggestions are welcome.
name=* <name of the feature> optional
religion=* christian/muslim/... optional
denomination=* roman_catholic/... optional

The elements of this relation should be:

  • All prescribed stopping places, with role stop, in their prescribed order (if present)
  • The route (ways) along which to get from the first to the last stop, only if the route is prescribed, without role. If the worshipper is free to take any route between stations, the ways need not be included in the relation.

Applies to

This proposal applies to all (religious or non-religous) routes of worship which have a certain number of prescribed stops where one can pray on the way. The stops must be clearly visible on the ground (such as a shrine, cross or temple).

This proposal does not apply to a route which leads to a certain place of worship, and where the trip itself might be concidered a form of worship, but that does not have fixed stopping places along it, even when there are many people taking the same route and stop at the same places, such as the pilgrimage routes to Santiago da Compostella

This proposal does not apply to sight-seeing tours for touristic reasons, even if they cover only places of worship.

Rendering

No specific rendering on the default OpenStreetMap; specialized renderers may choose to render the worship routes.

Features/Pages affected

Elements which are common as stops where one can worship, such as historic=wayside_cross and historic=wayside_shrine should have a link to this page in the see also-section.

Common names for routes of worship, such as "Stations of the Cross", "Via dolorosa" and "Hajj" might become a redirect to this page.

amenity=place_of_worship should have a link to this tag.

Comments

Please comment on the discussion page.