[OSM-talk] Edit war on Key:religion - Pastafarians
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Wed Jan 6 14:55:21 GMT 2010
Greg,
Greg Troxel wrote:
> and (more or less) the community views it as such as
> evidenced by holding services of some kind with some attendance". This
> latter part is necessary to exclude Joe putting up a "church of Joe" in
> his front yard; the town would then say "joe is a nutcase", as opposed
> to if he held services weekly and 20 people came, where they'd say
> something more like ".... but I suppose it's a church".
I think that people sometimes tag wayside crosses or little shrines as
"places of worship", even if they serve only the occasional rambler or
maybe a procession of catholics once a year.
I'd be wary of putting up such requirements. They get you into trouble
because it may well be that if the "Church of Joe" attracts a drunken
crowd once each year for Joe's birthday, his "Church" may be visited
more often than some obscure shrine on the side of a mountain somewhere,
and then you're fully into a "yours is not a proper religion but mine
is" argument.
> We should remember that the purpose of maps is to represent reality to
> map users, not to make political points. It's hard to tell which is
> going on here, but if no one comes up with pictures of worship houses
> for disputed religions, it seems like a frivolous argument.
I still think that, while understandable, going down this way will deny
a lot of established religions some of *their* places of worship.
Bye
Frederik
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