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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:19 PM Allan Mustard
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Please do
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<div> This is pretty much based on gut feelings and may be
partially or completely wrong...</div>
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<div>I don't think "amenity" is a suitable tag for a
consulate. Amenities are parks, or toilets, or similar.</div>
<div>"Should we go to the park or the consulate for a picnic
today?" "I'm busting for a crap, where's the</div>
<div>nearest consulate?" And I'm damned sure an embassy isn't
an amenity (I'm not even sure, in these</div>
<div> days of telecommunications, if it serves any purpose
other than housing spies, but if heads of state</div>
<div> do still use embassies for formal communication between
governments they're definitely not</div>
<div> amenities).</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div>I'm not going to worry too much about that particular tagging. 'amenity=*' is so overloaded in OSM (amenity=prison? Really?) that it can't possibly get any worse. Since I already have to account for a great many different sorts of cases when processing 'amenity=*' for rendering or analysis, one more would be lost in the noise. I tend to think of OSM's 'amenity' as having a meaning not too far removed from 'thing'.<br></div></div></div>