On 2015-01-25 17:29, Friedrich Volkmann wrote : > Probable all christian churches (buildings) and most chapels are dedicated > to patron saints. > E.g. the Basilica Sancti Petri (Saint Peter's Basilica) in Vatican City is > obviously dedicated to Sanctus Petrus (Saint Peter). As in this example, the > patron saint is often part of the common name of a church. But this example > also shows that an automated extraction is almost impossible. > > There are also many churches whose common names do not include the patron > saint at all. E.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/30344133 is usually > called "Bergkirche" or "Haydnkirche", but the patron saint is "Maria > Heimsuchung". Well, I don't know if a saint named "Maria Heimsuchung" really > existed, but the church is dedicated to her, so it's a patron saint at least > in an abstract sense. > > There has been no tagging rules so far. Some churches have > name=<common_name> + alt_name=<patron>, some have it the opposite way, some > have the patron or the common name omitted. > > I'd like to suggest a new key for patron saints. Certainly patron_saint=* or > just patron=*. There are some occurrences in Taginfo, although most values > of patron=* do not look like saints. > > holy_name=* has also been suggested, but this sounds to me as if the name > were holy. It's actually the saint who is holy. > > patronage=* may be ambiguous. > > patrociny=* seems to be an extinct word. > > What do you think? I think that, when they have a name=* tag (when the mapper cared to find it, easy, they're all here (unités pastorales) <http://liege.diocese.be/>), almost all churches around here are tagged with the dedication. I wonder why no one imported them already (I recommended the clergy to list a street address so that believers knew where to go;-) ). So, someone volunteering to change all that to another tag and only when it's a dedication would have a terrible job on his hand. If I came across a case like yours (usual name definitely not the dedication) I would simply use name=Haydnkirche Heilige Maria Heimsuchung or use alt_name=Heilige ... There's no need to have as many variations of alt_name as the sorts of names that can be.
André.
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