[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (consulate)

[Johnparis]

I was waiting for Martin to weigh in on the amenity vs. office question.

To me, a consulate falls squarely within the definition of amenity. It
certainly serves "tourists" (including expats/foreigners/etc.). When I am
visiting a new country, my country's consulate is one of the most important
places for me to know about. And if I'm considering a visit to another
country, finding that country's consulate is essential if I need a visa.

I'm not averse to office=diplomatic, but I do think amenity=diplomatic is a
better fit.

As to the diplomatic=* subkey, I will say that "diplomatic=non_diplomatic"
has been documented for some time. I do find it an oxymoron. I *think* the
intent was to cover diplomatic missions not covered by either of the two
main conventions. So "diplomatic=non_convention" might be a better value,
though not very conversational English. "diplomatic=other" is a catch-all,
but in that case you might as well just omit the subkey. I do think,
however, upon reviewing the examples cited, that "diplomatic=mission" might
be better. I don't see any particular reason to remove the other documented
values for diplomatic=* from the wiki. I defer to Allan and other experts
on this.

John




On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:57 PM Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> sent from a phone
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> On 27. Oct 2018, at 06:50, Allan Mustard <allan at mustard.net> wrote:
>
> So here is where I sense we are 24 hours later, on Day 6:
> a) consulates are not embassies;
> b) neither embassies nor consulates are amenities;
> c) embassies and consulates are government offices, but there is a trend
> toward thinking office=diplomatic is a better choice than
> office=government; and
> d) the office=diplomatic tag in tandem with diplomatic=* would meet OSM
> guidelines and support more accurate mapping.
>
> If my sense of growing consensus is correct, I suggest that diplomatic=*
> would include only [embassy, consulate, non-diplomatic].
>
>
>
> I am not an English native speaker, but from the dictionary reading I did
> not get the impression amenity is very far fetched for embassies, certainly
> less than for prisons.
>
> From a data structure perspective, for certain applications (e.g.
> osm-carto) a “main” key must be present in order to have the object not
> filtered out during database import. As I believe embassies should be in
> our “standard set” of data, a main key is desirable.
> I would see embassies as a good fit for osm amenity (indeed it is already
> there), they are different to other offices because of their particular
> status, and “office” is also not in the very core.
>
> Cheers, Martin
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