On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 6:10 PM Allan Mustard <[email protected]> wrote:
a) consulates are not embassies; > Indeed. If they were the same thing they'd have the same name. :) b) embassies and consulates are government offices, but there is no > agreement that office=government is appropriate; > I suspect that many of us (me, for one) who have not been intimately involved with diplomatic missions interpret "government" as meaning the government (national, provincial or local) of the specified country. Yes, technically, embassies are extensions of the government of the sending country but they don't feel like government offices to me. If I curse the government, as I frequently do, I'm thinking of my national government not all the embassies in my country. c) neither is an amenity; > Heartily agreed. d) office=diplomatic is a reasonable option that while not utterly precise > is close enough (I don't love it but can live with it), and that in tandem > with diplomatic=[embassy, consulate, etc.] would meet OSM guidelines? > If you can come up with a better value than "diplomatic" then do so. If you don't like it being under the office key, maybe have diplomatic=* as the primary key rather than a secondary key under office (although that may well contravene OSM naming conventions I've never heard of). But if we can have healthcare=doctor as an alternative to amenity=doctors or office=doctor then I don't see why diplomatic=embassy would be a bad idea. Also consider diplomatic:service=* or something along those for visas, etc. There are probably lots of things like that (such as help with import licensing) that may or may not be offered by any particular mission. You're the person who knows about these things and it's better if you cover all the options now than have people invent them on an ad hoc basis later and come up with things that turn out to be sub-optimal. -- Paul
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