<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>sent from a phone</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 3. Dec 2019, at 21:27, Sebastian Martin Dicke <Sebastianmartindicke@gmx.de> wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I often found offices of lawyers, which are notaries, too, and office</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>sharings of lawyers and notaries. To tag this appropriate, I wrote a</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>proposal:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/notary</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Definition: Notary services offered by a lawyers office</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>I’m not an expert in the field, but from some reading it seems notaries public aren’t lawyers (in common law systems) and should be distinguished from civil law notaries? Can someone with more expertise confirm or dismiss?</span><br><span></span><br><span>The wiki about the lawyer key isn’t helpful in defining the actual meaning of the tag: </span><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lawyer">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lawyer</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">And this page suggests that the office=notary tag could be seen as equivalent: <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dnotary">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dnotary</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Cheers Martin </div></body></html>