[Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

[Nathan Case]

On 11/05/2022 23:08, Minh Nguyen wrote:
> I think office=government government=official would avoid this 
> confusion and potentially apply to a broader range of facilities. 
> Would there be interest in migrating to this tag instead, for the 
> physical offices that are apolitical in nature? 

At least in the UK, the term "government" is very specific and being an 
elected representative =/= being in government.

"HM Government consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet and junior 
ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil servants that 
work in government departments." [1]

It is therefore incorrect (at least in purely British terminology) to 
tag a politician's consistency office as being a government office.


On 12/05/2022 00:13, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:
> To me a "Government Official" is a public servant / bureaucrat i.e. 
> employee / staff member, not somebody who has been elected?

I also agree with Graeme, government official is probably not a politician.


On 12/05/2022 08:24, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> so we do not want to cover campaigning offices with the tag? 
> office=politician sounds as if it could cover different kind of 
> facilities, a campaign office for an individual politician but also a 
> working office (non public) and an office where the politician will 
> meet with citizens. Maybe the non-public working office will not be 
> tagged like this. because it will be inside a bigger structure where 
> several of these offices are, which will get some office=government tag.

I think campaigning offices are probably OK - though I don't think such 
usage would be very wide in the UK. Perhaps we could have a sub-tag 
politician=* to specify the type of politician (e.g., 
politician=member_of_parliament, or politician=local, or 
politician=national_candidate).



[1] 
https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/role/relations-with-other-institutions/parliament-government/
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