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<div>different names are used all over the globe, e.g. <br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">"Embassy of the United States of America", "Embassy of USA",<br></div><div dir="auto">"Embassy of United States". Inconsistency leads to miss-understanding<br></div><div dir="auto">and poor re-use capacity of the data.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If commonly used local names in Australia/UK/New Zealand differ then<br></div><div dir="auto">name tag should also differ.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">If someone wishes to query for all USA embassies then machine-readable<br></div><div dir="auto">tag indicating who has sent the representative is the solution.<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And there is already such tag!<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">See <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:country" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:country</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-----------------------------------------------------<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note that name tag is for the commonly used name, even if it<br></div></div><div dir="auto">is in some way incorrect<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">"Also let's use "The Holy See" instead the improper "Vatican" while possible." <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Even if something is Apostolic Nunciature of The Holy See and<br></div><div dir="auto">referring to it as "Vatican embassy" is incorrect but it is the most<br></div><div dir="auto">commonly used and generally used name, then it should be still<br></div><div dir="auto">tagged as<br></div><div dir="auto">name=Vatican embassy<br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 1, 2022, 18:19 by winnerflo@free.fr:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br></div><div>I propose to homogenize the names of diplomatic places <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/homogenize_the_name_of_office%3Ddiplomatic_POI">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/homogenize_the_name_of_office%3Ddiplomatic_POI</a><br></div><div>This proposal has already been reviewed by user apm-wa that wrote the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/office%3Ddiplomatic">office=diplomatic voted proposal</a> so now please help me out finish it.<br></div><div><div>Please discuss this proposal on its Wiki Talk page.<br></div><div><span style="color:#888888" class=""></span><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0cm"><span style="color:#333333" class=""><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size:13px" class=""><b>Florian
Lainez</b></span></span></span><br></p><div><img style="max-width: 100px;"><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://twitter.com/overflorian" target="_blank">@overflorian</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div> </body>
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