[OSM-talk] Cathedral or chapel

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 15:46:55 BST 2009


Tag suggestion:

amenity=place_of_worship
place_of_worship=parish chapel cathedral basilica church monastery convent
retreat_house shrine abbey synagogue temple kingdom_hall jamaa masjid mosque
pantheon etc.


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/6/8 Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>:
> > 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.
>
> this means, churches should always be tagged by their highest possible
> rating. E.g. a chapel that is a cathedral should be tagged as
> cathedral, because it is high in church hierarchy, because there is a
> bishop's seat.
>
> Martin
>
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