<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">sent from a phone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On 30. Sep 2019, at 14:02, Paul Allen <<a href="mailto:pla16021@gmail.com">pla16021@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">And then there are basilicas, both major and minor, which</div><div class="gmail_quote">rank higher than cathedrals. </div></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>yes, this is one meaning of the word basilica, especially in catholicism, there is also another, art historic one, which describes a building of 3 naves in <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">a specific configuration (lower lateral naves and windows below the roof between the central nave and those lateral naves).</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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:</span></div><div><a href="https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/religious_rank">https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/religious_rank</a></div><div>(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). 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). And there are lower titles of churches, like collegiate churches, parish churches, etc, which are still more important than “ordinary” churches.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers Martin </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div></body></html>