Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread John F. Eldredge
Also, a lot of businesses serve as notaries, as a side-business. The closest notary public to my house is a company that rents out private mailboxes and sells shipping supplies. I have had several documents notarized there. On 02/07/2017 01:28 PM, Richard Welty wrote: On 2/7/17 2:21 PM,

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone > On 7 Feb 2017, at 18:56, Richard Welty wrote: > > office=notary just seems wrong to me, they're > rarely standalone in my experience. this tag is about a standalone notary, if you don't have such a feature you don't use it. Notaries working in

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/7/17 2:21 PM, Colin Smale wrote: > > On 2017-02-07 18:56, Richard Welty wrote: > >> office=notary just seems wrong to me, they're >> rarely standalone in my experience. >> > Richard, in Europe they are almost always standalone, by definition. > They need to be independent and impartial "by

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Colin Smale
On 2017-02-07 18:56, Richard Welty wrote: > office=notary just seems wrong to me, they're > rarely standalone in my experience. Richard, in Europe they are almost always standalone, by definition. They need to be independent and impartial "by law". They have a protected role in many transactions

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Richard Welty
On 2/7/17 12:13 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > yes, I can understand your frustration because apparently the makers > of JOSM have hijacked the notaries and the numbers of "their" tag are > now growing quite fast, due to the prevalence of JOSM. ;-) > > Please, take a step back and look at both

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-02-07 18:01 GMT+01:00 Ilya Zverev : > My point is, it is growing faster not because it is good, but because it > is in the JOSM presets. Mappers who chose it didn't think twice about which > tags JOSM places on the objects. yes, I can understand your frustration because

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Ilya Zverev
Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > to me office=notary seems ok as a tag, I'd prefer it over the office=lawyer + > subtag tagging, they are sufficiently distinct, and I see no point in > implying they are a subclass of lawyers which they might be or not. Office is > a tag that is already finegrained

Re: [Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
2017-02-07 17:19 GMT+01:00 Ilya Zverev : > * office=lawyer + lawyer=notary: introduced in wiki in 2010, number of > uses gradually rises to ~1000. > * office=notary: introduced by accident in 2014, was scarcely used until > it has found its way into JOSM presets in late 2015.

[Tagging] Notary Office

2017-02-07 Thread Ilya Zverev
Hi everyone, Recently I found that JOSM uses different tags for notary offices than I'm used to. Turns out, there are two competing tagging schemas: * office=lawyer + lawyer=notary: introduced in wiki in 2010, number of uses gradually rises to ~1000. * office=notary: introduced by accident in