<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 07:37, Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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                    <div dir="ltr">On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:19 PM Allan
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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
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                    <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>
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          <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
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          <div>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'.</div>
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    I think of it as the miscellaneous folder of OSM, if it cannot fit
    anywhere else it goes in here.  The 'I give up' option.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Just had a thought :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Would this work under the landuse=government / civic_admin / public_admin that was being discussed t'other day? </div><div><br></div><div>Maybe something like:</div><div><br></div><div>landuse=government</div><div><br></div><div>government=diplomatic (rendering with the current "embassy" flag)</div><div><br></div><div>diplomatic=embassy / consulate etc</div><div><br></div><div>services=visa; passport etc</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div></div>