The problem I see is that, as I understand it, Allan is proposing to drop some existing diplomatic=* values, such as diplomatic=permanent_mission. And the proposed substitute is to rely on the name=* tag.
Martin pointed out a problem where something not an embassy has a name like an embassy. But also the proposal to "just search on the name" will fail if, for example, the tagging is something like this: office=diplomatic diplomatic=other name=مهمة تجارية من ليبيا If you're looking for trade missions, I doubt very much that you'll find that one. On the other hand, you will find it if the tag diplomatic=mission is used (I'm not proposing that as a value, but see below). On a similar note, I don't think the subtags proposed under "other" will ever gain widespread use. "Other" means "end of the road" to most people. Basically, anything you're thinking of under "other" that warrants its own category should be elevated one level, and "diplomatic=other" should be dropped. The trick is deciding on what categories are significant enough to merit a separate tagging value. Currently you're at "embassy, consulate," but I'd challenge you to go further. I find this sentence in one of your emails to be particularly problematic on this subject: *A trade mission (aka "trade commissioner", "commercial office", "trade representative") can be part of any of the three categories; it is not accredited separately*. If someone needs to be an expert on international law to determine the tag, there's a problem with the tagging scheme. Looking at taginfo (thanks for the correct link, Martin), I see that there are very, very few subtags currently in use for diplomatic=* embassy consulate consulate_general -- folded into consulate under current proposal -- this makes sense to me honorary_consulate -- folded into consulate -- is that right? My experience with honorary consuls is that they are more like private citizens promoting trade high_commission -- folded into embassy -- sensible permanent_mission -- not mentioned -- should be folded into embassy? delegation -- not mentioned UN -- not mentioned -- probably should be same as permanent_mission trade_delegation -- not mentioned visa -- not mentioned (I believe these are for private companies that handle visas on behalf of consulates -- where to categorize?) non_diplomatic -- becomes "other" -- I think this should be dropped entirely You also had a partial list of proposed tags for "other" ... liaison_office representative_office subnational trade_office cultural_center assistance_office These are all candidates for values of diplomatic=* (I doubt most need their own category, and thus should be dropped). In particular the "subnational" tag is already implied by the existence of a hyphen in the "sending_country" (US-VA for Virginia, for instance). Finally, on the question of whether to make the main tag "office" or "diplomatic" -- this reminds me of the discussion several years back for the Internet's top-level domains (.com, .edu, .uk, etc...), which are now free-for-all. As Martin pointed out, certain existing programs (like the openstreetmap.org map) assume a small subset of top-level tags, and adding to that small subset is not easy. So I would advocate for office=diplomatic as the main tag rather than trying to create a new main tag. John On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:09 AM Warin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/10/18 21:23, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: > > > > sent from a phone > > On 29. Oct 2018, at 11:18, Martin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> > wrote: > > At the moment mappers can simply tag by using the name > > > > here’s an example for a misleading name tag: > https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/332554285 > > > Just to make it clear. > > I am only using things already tagged amenity=embassy, but missing a > diplomatic tag and then using the associated name value to determine what > diplomatic value to add. > > Not simply every name tag in the data base... that could lead to some > interesting results. > > There are some things miss-tagged as amenity=embassy .. one is a school (I > have re-tagged that), I think 3 others are brothels... fixmes in place now. > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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