[Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

[Mateusz Konieczny]

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dpolitician is now existing,
thanks to Casey boy 
( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:office%3Dpolitician&action=history )
for creating this page.

It documents already used tag, but right now it is in relatively low use.

It seems to be much better fit in this case than office=political_party, even
if sometimes used this way.

May 9, 2022, 17:37 by nathancase at outlook.com:

> 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
>
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