[OSM-newbies] Church hierarchy

[Mike Thompson]

I have seen churches where at least part of the hierarchy is listed on the
sign out front.  Something like "Redeemer Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod"

Mike

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> Organizational hierarchies are interesting and useful, but they're a
> bit outside what we normally map in OSM.
>
> There are other organizational hierarchies one might consider, such as
> government facilities, town, county, state, federal government
> facilities, or corporations which have subsidiaries, etc.
>
> That's very valuable information, but you can't really observe it on the
> ground.
>
> There are places where such information would be of great value, such
> as Wikipedia or Wikidata.
>
> - Serge
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bill & Kathy Patterson
> <bill_patterson at tricolour.queensu.ca> wrote:
> > Actually I wasn't thinking of mapping the boundaries.  Rather I meant my
> > query to relate to the detail assigned while mapping specific church
> > buildings.  The denomination is already a tag (if I have my parlance
> > correct), but would it be reasonable to also specify within which deanery
> > and diocese (or which presbytery and synod) a church lies?  If so, should
> > this be done as a tag or as a relation? And although the denomination is
> > already in the information, does it add anything to specify the governing
> > body such as the Presbyterian Church in Canada vs. the Church of
> Scotland or
> > the Presbyterian Church in the United States.  And then there are the
> > baptists, with the American Baptist churches, the Southern Baptist
> > Convention, the General Baptist Ministries, the Fellowship of Evangelical
> > Baptists, and goodness knows how many other groups.  Somehow the tag
> > "Baptist" seems inadequate.
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: John Sturdy <jcg.sturdy at gmail.com>
> > To: Bill & Kathy Patterson <bill_patterson at tricolour.queensu.ca>; Help
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> > newbie mappers <newbies at openstreetmap.org>
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> > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Church hierarchy
> >
> > I haven't seen any; what type of objects are you looking at mapping?
> > You could map the boundaries of the administrative areas, although I
> > don't think this is done.  For example, for my area and my
> > denomination (Anglican), if I search on the front page map for the
> > government county "Cambridgeshire", I get the county boundary, as a
> > relation containing several ways, but if I search for "Diocese of Ely"
> > I don't get anything.  But if you have the boundaries of the
> > lowest-level units (e.g. parishes) you could map those, and then build
> > deaneries and dioceses on top of those.
> >
> > __John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bill & Kathy Patterson
> > <bill_patterson at tricolour.queensu.ca> wrote:
> >> Are there any recommendations for reporting church hierarchies in OSM?
> >> For
> >> example, in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the United Church of
> >> Canada, congregations are members of presbyteries, and presbyteries
> >> members
> >> of synods, a bottom-up structure.  In the Anglican and Roman Catholic
> >> churches I know that the diocese is part of their top-down structure.
> >>
> >> Should these be tags, relations, or ignored?
> >
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