On 12/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Chance</b> <<a href="mailto:tom@acrewoods.net">tom@acrewoods.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Hullo,<br><br>After Hanoj raised various problems with the way we mark places of worship<br>I came across this table of values for religion and denomination in the DB<br>as of Feb 2007:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship</a><br><br>I've updated this page which purports to contain the definitive list of<br>denominations:<br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship#Values_for_Denomination">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship#Values_for_Denomination</a><br><br>But it would be good to correct differences like "Baptist" and "baptist",<br>to translate "church_of_england" into "anglican", "Roman Catholic" to
<br>"catholic" and so on. There are also religion values that are really<br>denominations ("Catholic", "christian_quaker") and denomination values that<br>are really religions ("buddhist", "scientology"). I seem to remember
<br>someone had a kind of spellcheck tool that could do this. So two questions:</blockquote><div><br><br>Bearing in mind that "catholic" is not the same as "Roman Catholic", especially with a lower-case 'c', despite the general usage in the UK and probably elsewhere.
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic</a><br><br><br>I'd leave well alone personally :-)<br><br></div></div>