[Tagging] patron saints

[Friedrich Volkmann]

On 25.01.2015 19:07, André Pirard wrote:
> 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.

Looking at Liège in OSM, I see names like:
name=Cathédrale Saint-Paul
name=Collégiale Saint-Jean
name=Église Saint Pierre
etc.

So they are not exactly tagged with the dedication, but the dedication is
part of the name.

> 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.

The new tag is optional, so there is no need to do that work.

However, if someone happens to do it, reports like "show me all churches
dedicated to Saint Paul" or "show me the most popular dedication in that
region" or "show me the region where Saint Paul is most popular" become
possible.

> If I came across a case like yours (usual name definitely not the
> dedication) I would simply use
> name=Haydnkirche Heilige Maria Heimsuchung

This would be simple, but wrong, because that is not the name.

> or use alt_name=Heilige ...

This is how we have done it so far, but strictly speaking it is wrong too,
because "Heilige Maria Heimsuchung" is not the name of the church, it's the
name of the dedication. "Kirche zur Heiligen Maria Heimsuchung" could be a
name, but then again, the tag value is unusuable for reporting.

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