Note that Baptists are less hierarchical than some other denominations. A given
congregation may or may not be associated with local, state, and national
associations, in any combination, and membership in a local association, for
example, doesn't confer state or national membership. Among Southern Baptists,
the state and national associations are commonly referred to as Conventions.
On April 24, 2015 4:59:01 PM CDT, Bill & Kathy Patterson
<bill_patter...@tricolour.queensu.ca> 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 <jcg.stu...@gmail.com>
> To: Bill & Kathy Patterson <bill_patter...@tricolour.queensu.ca>; Help
> for newbie mappers <newbies@openstreetmap.org>
> 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
> <bill_patter...@tricolour.queensu.ca> 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?
> >
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