I would like to roll town hall into civic_admin, or similar, but realistically i can't, because the tag os so popular.
But since almost every single other government agency or service is currently untagged, there is still plenty to be done. Javbw. > On Jun 9, 2015, at 10:58 PM, Andreas Goss <andi...@t-online.de> wrote: > > What I don't get is why everyone is on this office=government and > government=* tag, when even in your proposal most of the stuff that would > fall under civic_admin is currently just tagged as amenity. > > I mean I would not have an issue with a government= tag, but then we would > have to be consistent and long term stuff like amenity=townhall should be > government=townhall. > > And the biggest issue as already mentioned a bit further down in the > discussion is that there often is no clear line you can draw. In some > countries a service is run by the government, in others it's not and > sometimes that's even the case within a country. > > > On 6/9/15 08:48 , johnw wrote: >>> On Jun 9, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bry...@obviously.com> wrote: >>> >>> There's a whole set of assumptions about each type of goverment office that >>> would be impossible to >>> consistently capture with generic tags. Here the "Duck" of duck typing >>> says call it by whatever it is known locally. >> >> >> I think there is still an umbrella it can fit under, saying it is related to >> cars and licensing. >> >> A place that registers your car and a place that licenses you for driving >> may be a different facility (or combo), but the government office(s) that >> handles that can at least have some kind of tag to get put in some kind of >> group. >> >> government=motor_vehicle_admin >> >> or civic_admin=motor_vehicle >> >> We don’t assume the government is selling cars or car parts, and >> administration isn’t related to enforcement (tickets/impound), sales, nor >> maintenance, so it isn’t so ambiguous. >> >> and the name will tell the locals the rest. (Liscence Center, Automobile >> Registration center, Dept of Motor Vehecles, etc) >> >> Unless we want to get into the same subcategory system that shop=* should >> have, and we start documenting specific government facilities (which I >> wanted to do with civic_admin and landuse=civic). >> >> Javbw >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tagging mailing list >> Tagging@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > > > -- > __________ > openstreetmap.org/user/AndiG88 > wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:AndiG88 > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
