Colin, there is a separate discussion on the wiki page about multiple
admin centres, as you said below. It is a valid point, but IMHO a
separate issue from technically tagging the admin_centre role on a way.
On 26.01.2017 13:02, Colin Smale wrote:
Tom, I think we need to have consensus about what we mean by admin
centre. The traditional "town hall" is frequently no longer the central
office location where the administrative and/or customer-facing staff
are located, and indeedn, these functions may be distributed over
multiple locations. How are we to choose which is to be the admin
centre? Or shall we add all the locations? In that case, I think we will
need a mechanism to indicate which is the primary location - maybe the
advertised address for postal purposes from the website? Or the
statutory seat?
In the UK it is mostly linked to a place node, which indicates the
city/town/village but not down to the level of a building. We should be
able to do geometric searches for civic administration buildings in the
area (given appropriate tagging). But watch out for councils whose seat
is not within their own area, such as Surrey County Council in the UK.
Their County Hall is in Kingston-upon-Thames, which is now in London (it
was once in Surrey but the boundary was changed).
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