Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-27 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 25.08.2015 um 19:10 schrieb serpens-...@gmx.de: And amenity=embassy just way to specific, nobody wants amenity=consulate_general, ameninty=consulate etc. why not? What is the advantage of using diplomatic instead of amenity as a key? Why should we use the same main

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-26 Thread Kieron Thwaites
Take a look at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposal_process --K On 26 August 2015 at 13:10, serpens-...@gmx.de wrote: What is the best way to bring this on a formal way to an official tag? Is wiki:Proposed_features the right place (it is partly about changing existing tags not only

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-26 Thread serpens-osm
What is the best way to bring this on a formal way to an official tag? Is wiki:Proposed_features the right place (it is partly about changing existing tags not only about new tags)? Where takes a vote place about this? Best Serpens Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. August 2015 um 14:21 Uhr Von:

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread serpens-osm
I'm a bit lost in this thread and hope that I'm not repeating what was already said, but there is extensive documentation on this topic in the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dembassy and linked pages. It might be disputable whether tagging consulate generals as

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread serpens-osm
Hi, thank you for your thoughts! diplomatic:country=ES I don’t think that is the best solution. Why not? As I wrote: The destination country is not always identical with addr:country – see for example the embassy of Ethiopia in Berlin (destination countries: Germany, Poland, Slovak

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2015-08-25 16:42 +0200, serpens-...@gmx.de wrote: The destination country is not always identical with addr:country – see for example the embassy of Ethiopia in Berlin (destination countries: Germany, Poland, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic), see

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 25.08.2015 um 15:16 schrieb Kieron Thwaites kieron.thwai...@gmail.com: To take your example of a Spanish consulate in France, I would amend it to something along these lines: amenity=diplomatic diplomatic=consulate diplomatic:country=ES name=Spanish Consulate

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread serpens-osm
having an English name for a Spanish consulate to France seems kind of odd for the tag name ;-) That’s a joke, right? ;-) ___ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread Tom Pfeifer
serpens-...@gmx.de wrote on 2015-08-25 16:43: having an English name for a Spanish consulate to France seems kind of odd for the tag name ;-) That’s a joke, right? ;-) I would not see that a joke. name= should be the locally used name, name:en= the English one. t.

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread serpens-osm
having an English name for a Spanish consulate to France seems kind of odd for the tag name ;-) That’s a joke, right? ;-) I would not see that a joke. name= should be the locally used name, name:en= the English one. It was just an hypothetical example and the whole discussion is not

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread Kieron Thwaites
Ah, OK. That makes more sense then. (: --K On 25 August 2015 at 17:15, L. David Baron dba...@dbaron.org wrote: On Tuesday 2015-08-25 16:42 +0200, serpens-...@gmx.de wrote: The destination country is not always identical with addr:country – see for example the embassy of Ethiopia in

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread Martin Koppenhoefer
sent from a phone Am 25.08.2015 um 16:42 schrieb serpens-...@gmx.de: So there is an embassy - located in Berlin (addr:country=DE), - the sending country is Ethiopia (diplomatic:sending_country=ET) - and the destination countries are Germany, Poland, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic

Re: [Tagging] diplomatic institutions (with tl;dr)

2015-08-25 Thread Kieron Thwaites
Hi, While I've never tagged any form of diplomatic institution, I agree with the rationale behind your proposal. I do have some suggestions around implementation details. I would argue that you wouldn't need tags specifying what country the diplomatic institution is physically located in: one