I’ve been wanting to make a amenity=immigration because usually foreign residents (and only foreign residents) go to such facilities - so local mappers are usually unaware of their existence or importance.
These are places where people apply for new visas, extensions to existing visas, and change from one visa type to another. Usually regional ones cover mostly visa extensions for residents, whereas a main office would cover the gamut from people looking for asylum to people applying for new visas to be come residents in some manner for work or marriage. Finding the regional offices in your host country can be very difficult if there is a language barrier - sometimes they are in a giant government complex, sometimes they are a standalone facility - but they should be very clearly marked. My old office was hidden on the 3rd floor of a non-descript building next to a clothing shop. Almost no signage helped you find it, until you were in the lobby of the building. These facilities are *not* border control nor passport applications offices - as they deal only with the foreign people living in their area. They might be in the same complex, but often times they are not, and warrant their own tag. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/36.32304/139.00155 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/36.32304/139.00155> This the building I have to visit in Japan for my residence visa now. It is a small building run by the Justice Ministry, as the program was recently transferred from customs to Justice (AFAIK). They also have a small prisoner transfer center there, which gets a rendered icon. This is the only office within 2 hours of travel - so many thousands of foreigners have to come to this one office every year or so from all over the region. As an aside, I think we should suggest the name=* field to be the defacto “foreign" language for the country, which would be English for most of Asia (they standardize on english as a common “foreign" language), which would be very helpful for the foreigners having to visit there - as (in my case) no Japanese citizen ever needs to visit nor care about the office (unless married to a foreigner) - and the asian language scripts are often unreadable to new foreign residents who are looking for the office to visit. The native language and others can of course be tagged as well, but I think the facility should have it’s "foreign" language name rendered first and foremost. Javbw > On Sep 24, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am looking through taginfo and the wiki, but I don't see a good clear tag > for immigrant/asylum/refugee "reception" centers. > > These are usually government type facilities that process immigrants and > refugees. > > Some are also holding facilities, and some are just government offices. > > They are separate and distinct from standard passport control or border check > points. > > Any suggestions? > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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