[OSM-talk] Cathedral or chapel

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/6/8 Stephen Gower <socks-openstreetmap.org at earth.li>:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:12:13AM +0100, Dave Stubbs wrote:
>>
>> You could have done church_type=cathedral, church_type=church, and
>> church_type=chapel (arbitrary tag name choice... probably not a good
>> one) and let the renderer figure out that for itself.
>
> [Digression into an edge-case, probably best just to ignore me :-)]
>
> The chapel of one of Oxford University's colleges, Christ Church,
> is also a cathedral.  A rather unimpressive cathedral, but a
> cathedral nevertheless.
>


/me looks up what makes a cathedral a cathedral on wikipedia and then
continues sounding highly knowledgeable...

Yes, entirely possible. After all, a cathedral is just a church with a
special chair and possibly some big guns.

Dave


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_(priest)