[Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

[Nathan Case]

Hi all,

I was going to map my local Member of Parliament's (MP) [1] constituency 
office and thought I'd run a few things by this list.

A constituency office is (usually) located in the community the MP is 
elected to represent - not in the Houses of Parliament (i.e. the 
building where MPs debate). The MP may carry out administrative tasks, 
have meetings with the community, run drop in sessions, employ staff, 
etc at this office.

1. We have office=political_party documented in the Wiki [2]. It's well 
used but has no real description. I would presume this should be for 
political party headquarters (either national or local), rather than an 
individual politician's constituency office? Some scanning (in the UK) 
does suggest it has been used for this purpose however.

2. If office=political_party is not really suitable, is there a better 
tag for an individual politician's office? How about office=politician? 
It only has very minimal usage [3] but seems to fit nicely. I don't 
think office=government [4] is a good fit because not all politicians 
are in government (at least in the UK anyway).

3. Do we have a suitable key to store a politician's political 
party/affiliation? The key political_party=* has very minimal usage [5] 
so I'm just wondering if I've overlooked something else.

Thanks.

Nathan


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)

[2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dpolitical_party

[3] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/office=politician

[4] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dgovernment

[5] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/political_party