I have seen churches where at least part of the hierarchy is listed on the sign out front. Something like "Redeemer Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod"
Mike On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote: > Bill, > > Organizational hierarchies are interesting and useful, but they're a > bit outside what we normally map in OSM. > > There are other organizational hierarchies one might consider, such as > government facilities, town, county, state, federal government > facilities, or corporations which have subsidiaries, etc. > > That's very valuable information, but you can't really observe it on the > ground. > > There are places where such information would be of great value, such > as Wikipedia or Wikidata. > > - Serge > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Bill & Kathy Patterson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Actually I wasn't thinking of mapping the boundaries. Rather I meant my > > query to relate to the detail assigned while mapping specific church > > buildings. The denomination is already a tag (if I have my parlance > > correct), but would it be reasonable to also specify within which deanery > > and diocese (or which presbytery and synod) a church lies? If so, should > > this be done as a tag or as a relation? And although the denomination is > > already in the information, does it add anything to specify the governing > > body such as the Presbyterian Church in Canada vs. the Church of > Scotland or > > the Presbyterian Church in the United States. And then there are the > > baptists, with the American Baptist churches, the Southern Baptist > > Convention, the General Baptist Ministries, the Fellowship of Evangelical > > Baptists, and goodness knows how many other groups. Somehow the tag > > "Baptist" seems inadequate. > > > > ________________________________ > > From: John Sturdy <[email protected]> > > To: Bill & Kathy Patterson <[email protected]>; Help > for > > newbie mappers <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 8:08 AM > > Subject: Re: [OSM-newbies] Church hierarchy > > > > I haven't seen any; what type of objects are you looking at mapping? > > You could map the boundaries of the administrative areas, although I > > don't think this is done. For example, for my area and my > > denomination (Anglican), if I search on the front page map for the > > government county "Cambridgeshire", I get the county boundary, as a > > relation containing several ways, but if I search for "Diocese of Ely" > > I don't get anything. But if you have the boundaries of the > > lowest-level units (e.g. parishes) you could map those, and then build > > deaneries and dioceses on top of those. > > > > __John > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Bill & Kathy Patterson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Are there any recommendations for reporting church hierarchies in OSM? > >> For > >> example, in the Presbyterian Church in Canada, and the United Church of > >> Canada, congregations are members of presbyteries, and presbyteries > >> members > >> of synods, a bottom-up structure. In the Anglican and Roman Catholic > >> churches I know that the diocese is part of their top-down structure. > >> > >> Should these be tags, relations, or ignored? > > > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> newbies mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > newbies mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies > > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies >
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