[Tagging] Distinguishing closed office spaces and client service locations?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jul 9, 2020, 23:58 by pla16021 at gmail.com:

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> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 22:36, Mateusz Konieczny via Tagging <> tagging at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:
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>> Jul 9, 2020, 20:38 by >> pla16021 at gmail.com>> :
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>>> Maybe not ideal, but if you're looking for an immediate solution then
>>> access=customers and access=private?
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>> I like it, but it is a bit tricky as I can walk into many offices without being
>> a customer (though typically it is done as someone wants or
>> considers being one).
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> "Customers" is rather broad, though.  I think some of us apply
> access=customers to church car parks.  Then again, one could argue they're
> buying after-life insurance.  If I walk into a shop and look around then
> walk out without buying anything, does that mean I wasn't a customer
> in the OSM sense?  
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> I take "customers" to mean "non-employees who may access the
> facility because of interactions with the controlling organization."  Not
> staff.  Private means that nobody but staff (excepting emergency
> services, plumbers who have been called in to deal with a problem,
> etc.) have access.
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Good point, I also used access=customers for churchgoers-only parking lot.

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>> Though access=private seems perfectly fine to mark office as internal
>> to a company (or covering restricted set of clients).
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> If there are restrictions on who may be a client, then it's more of
> access=designated, or opening hours with "appointment required" or
> some such.
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> I think we can handle these things with existing tagging.  A bit clunky,
> but it can be done.  Is it worth doing it more explicitly for the sake of
> carto or overpass queries?  I haven't given it enough thought to
> say one way or the other on more explicit handling.
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I was thinking mostly about other mappers, access tag on office
may be a bit unclear in the intended meaning.

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