[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (consulate)

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Fri Oct 26 02:26:48 UTC 2018


In OSM I would expect the term government not to be a foreign government 
but a resident one.
So I would use a different term, office=diplomatic for example.

On 26/10/18 12:26, Allan Mustard wrote:
>
> Embassies and consulates are definitely government facilities/offices. 
> Under the legal doctrine of extraterritoriality, the embassy or 
> consulate is considered to be located in the sending country for 
> purposes of legal jurisdiction. Extraterritoriality is virtually 
> unlimited in the case of an embassy; it is more limited in the case of 
> a consulate but still exists.  Thus office=government, 
> government=[diplomatic, consular}, diplomatic=[embassy, 
> high_commission, nunciature, legation, interests_section, 
> branch_embassy, liaison_office] might be what we are looking for.
>
> On 10/25/2018 2:24 PM, Colin Smale wrote:
>>
>> On 2018-10-25 06:42, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 11:41, Warin <61sundowner at gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:61sundowner at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Err no.
>>>
>>>     The 'government' is not 'foreign' but of federal/state/local
>>>     jurisdiction to that place.
>>>
>>>     landuse=diplomatic???
>>>
>>> Yes, but that patch of ground is owned by the "Australian" govt - 
>>> it's just that it's located in the US or where-ever!
>> For the avoidance of doubt, it is owned by the "Australian govt" in 
>> the same sense that I own my house (but it may also be rented or 
>> leased). It is not outside of the host country's jurisdiction, if 
>> that's what you were implying by "owned".
>>
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