[Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

[Andrew Hain]

The offices where I live belong to the local parties, so that when my constituency had a Conservative MP he used the Conservative office, which the party still use. I saw office=political_party as the best match for the party function.

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Andrew
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From: Nathan Case <nathancase at outlook.com>
Sent: 09 May 2022 16:37
To: tagging at openstreetmap.org <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

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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