On 27 January 2016 at 15:03, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > 1. In many western civilizations you have a division of state powers in > an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary. I believe that you'd > normally only call the executive "government", although colloquially > people will say "the government has passed a law" or "the government has > put him in prison" too.
Good point, I added an additional tag to clarify that all branches are included. > For a government=* tag to succeed, it would have to be clearly > delineated for what kinds of things it is to be used. The proposed > definition is already murky; for example, a job centre or even a museum > cashier could be "fully paid for by the government and completely > controlled by them". This is not any better defined than > amenity=public_building. True, coming up with a precise definition is quite hard though. I think I would like to include places like job centres, but exclude museum cashiers or private bus/road work companies. Would something like this work? "The tag office=government is used to tag offices of a (supra)national, regional or local government agency or department. In these offices, staff directly paid for by the government carry out administrative jobs to govern the area and/or people." Could somebody (perhaps a native speaker) improve on this definition? -- Matthijs _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
