[OSM-talk] Cleaning up religions & denominations

[Dave Stubbs]

On 12/09/2007, Tom Chance <tom at acrewoods.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hullo,
>
> After Hanoj raised various problems with the way we mark places of worship
> I came across this table of values for religion and denomination in the DB
> as of Feb 2007:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship
>
> I've updated this page which purports to contain the definitive list of
> denominations:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Mapping/Features/Place_of_Worship#Values_for_Denomination
>
> But it would be good to correct differences like "Baptist" and "baptist",
> to translate "church_of_england" into "anglican", "Roman Catholic" to
> "catholic" and so on. There are also religion values that are really
> denominations ("Catholic", "christian_quaker") and denomination values
> that
> are really religions ("buddhist", "scientology"). I seem to remember
> someone had a kind of spellcheck tool that could do this. So two
> questions:



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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic


I'd leave well alone personally :-)
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