[Tagging] Homogenize diplomatic tags

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 17 12:50:31 UTC 2022


On 17/12/2022 11:03, Georges Dutreix via Tagging wrote:
> Hello,
> As proposed, I continue here our discussion started on 
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/117329397
>
Thanks

> You suggest to modify something in the wiki, I am ready to 
> participate, but please I will need a guidance since I don't see 
> exactly what you are expecting.
>

The wiki's supposed to document how tags are used in OpenStreetMap.  
Currently https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diplomatic covers both 
what you changed things _from_ and what you changed things _to_.

It also suggests that "diplomatic" isn't a top-level tag ("In 
conjunction with office 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office>=diplomatic 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Ddiplomatic>, this key 
helps...), whereas 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/office%3Ddiplomatic 
says "Elevation of diplomatic 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diplomatic>=* to primary tag 
status".

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:diplomatic contains lots of tags 
listed as "in_use" where "This tag does not appear in the OSM database".

An example of an "old" page is 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:diplomatic%3Dhigh_commission .  
It reads like proper documentation.  An example of a new page is 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:embassy%3Dhigh_commission , 
which does not.  If someone unfamiliar with the history was to look at 
the wiki, they may well pick the "old" scheme because it looks better 
documented.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:consulate suggests "Requires 
office=diplomatic and diplomatic=consulate on a node". I don't know if 
you think that that is supposed to be true or not, but it's not how I 
read the proposal.

The dead link to honorary_consulate seems to have been fixed - thanks to 
whoever did that.

Best Regards,

Andy

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