I think I'm going to borrow your text and make it the last version of the proposal, then put it to a vote. Today marks two weeks, so we can call a vote if everybody's ready. I go back on the road Tuesday afternoon for a few days so will be off the grid, good time to get started.
On 11/4/2018 5:09 PM, egil wrote: > On 2018-11-01 20:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:14 AM Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net >> <mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote: >> >> * shift to office=diplomatic and use the existing diplomatic=* >> additional (secondary) tag to specify whether embassy, consulate, >> or other, then use embassy, consulate and other as additional >> (tertiary) tags to specify further the type of diplomatic or >> non-diplomatic mission as needed. >> >> >> This is my preferred option for the following reasons: >> 1. It reuses the existing office=* primary key, which is already in >> use (for example, by the main OSM tile layer), as opposed to >> introducing diplomatic=* as a primary key. Furthermore, I am in favor >> of not having too many top-level primary keys unless they make a lot >> of sense (like healthcare=* which is a really broad category, so it >> makes sense to break this off as a primary key). >> 2. It does not clutter the overused amenity=* key and allows >> renderers and users to treat diplomatic and quasi-diplomatic objects >> in the same way and in a simpler way as opposed to tagging >> amenity=[embassy, consulate, <some yet unspecified value>]. >> 3. The three values for the secondary tag diplomatic=[embassy, >> consulate, other] plus adding further details to [embassy, consulate, >> other]=* makes it easy for mappers to add the level of detail they >> are comfortable with. If a mapper is unsure what the object is, they >> can just tag it as office=diplomatic. Then other slightly more >> knowledgeable mappers can specify diplomatic=*, which seems enough >> for most casual map users. Then other really knowledgeable mappers >> can further add [embassy, consulate, other]=* for even more detail >> and more specialized mapping applications. > > +1В > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
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