[Tagging] Homogenize diplomatic tags

[Andy Townsend]

On 28/01/2022 17:30, Georges Dutreix via Tagging wrote:
>
> Th user is requested to check carefully at what he is doing, because 
> in some cases, the manual edit will allow to correct a wrong tagging.
>
>
To be honest, the instructions seem to cover the "how" rather than the 
"what".  This is from 
https://maproulette.org/challenge/24297/task/123794581 :

    Instructions


    First read how to tag diplomatic offices.

    To modify the tags of this challenge, you may:

         either directly modify the proposed values and/or add tags
    within MapRoulette, then validate the task to send directly the data
    to OSM,
         either download the object in JOSM to change the tags and then
    click "already mapped" in MapRoulette.

    Select a task and display all the tags of the object with the "Show
    all tags" button of MapRoulette. Look carefully at the names and
    other tags to check if it's really a delegation according to the
    wiki, and not something else.

    The tags diplomatic=embassy + embassy=delegation are automatically
    proposed.

    If you are not sure of what to do, skip the task.


https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Ddiplomatic#How_to_map 
(which is linked from the above) does contain a lot more detail - it 
says things like "diplomatic:services:citizen_services=yes/no - 
Availability of passport and other document services, for citizens of 
the sending country of the diplomatic office"

However, I'm not convinced that relatively new mappers (who are the 
target of MapRoulette after all) are going to do much of that or even 
understand it, and I'm worried that it'll end up as a 
mechnical-turk-driven "search and replace".

It's important to get the tagging right*, and to flag up potential 
problems when they are spotted - I'm not sure that "If you are not sure 
of what to do, skip the task" is enough information.

Best Regards,

Andy

* An OSMer with considerable experience of this area has written about 
this in the past: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/apm-wa/diary/45200

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