Hi,
I took the long way around to get to the supermarket and found myself outside
Church of Ireland House in Rathmines.
I spoke to one of their IT people and they are familiar with OSM and are
favourably inclined to facilitating us.
They can provide us with a KML of their current churches (and possibly other
public buildings / sites). The KML file feeds these pages:
http://ireland.anglican.org/information/dioceses/parish/14810
How do we go about sorting an OSM licence?
Who will be able to help me with uploading the data? :) I'm happy to 'take
charge' of things after that.
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In parallel, there is a material issue with the way that religious sites are
being labelled. Quite a few Christian denominations claim to be Catholic, but
aren't Roman Catholic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_(term)
On OSM, denomination=catholic (1256 entries) seems to be used interchangeably
with denomination=roman_catholic (440).
Similarly denomination=protestant (62) is used, which may be unthinking. That
said, smaller denominations do sometimes share buildings / sites, e.g. Christ
Church in Leeson Park has Methodist, Church of Ireland, Romanian Orthodox and I
think one other Orthodox groups.
Some other buildings / sites, like funeral homes and cemeteries carry
religion=multi-denominational (2) and religion=multifaith (20) tags
Colm
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