On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 14:26, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have proposed a long time ago a tag religious_rank which was thought for > example as a modifier for places of worship and monsteries. It’s not > particularly popular, but it could be suitable for finer distinctions: > https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/religious_rank > Some denominations have strict ranks. Others are far more egalitarian. And what rank is the only place of worship of a very small denomination? (It’s currently not very likely we will map religious divisions/districts > and represent the whole hierarchy of the catholic church (or others, but > they are the biggest and likely most organized/differentiated) so that we > could add churches as seat of a bishop to a relation). > A diocesan relation might be useful to some people. But is it necessary to have a rank tag on the places of worship to achieve it? A role would do the same thing. > Additionally, I believe (not completely sure), that cathedrals might keep > their title after a reorganization of the administrative district (so there > could be 2 cathedrals for one bishop in some cases). > Nope. The cathedral follows the bishop (in Catholicism, not sure about other denominations that have cathedrals). If a bishop moves out of a large, ornate building with gothic arches and flying buttresses (what most of us think of when we hear the word "cathedral") then it ceases to be a cathedral. If that bishop moves into a small, crude chapel then it becomes the cathedral. In practise that rarely happens and bishops get the biggest and best buildings. Nevertheless, most people who see a certain type of building immediately think "cathedral" whether it has a bishop or not. > And there are lower titles of churches, like collegiate churches, parish > churches, etc, which are still more important than “ordinary” churches. > Few of those distinctions are obvious from the outside, though. And we both forgot about minsters. But I think this is taking us into the realms of how many angels can dance on the head of an OSM node. I wonder if any light can be shed upon this discussion by No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. -- Paul
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