[Tagging] Tagging of a politician's office

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 19:00 2022-05-12, Graeme Fitzpatrick đã viết:
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> On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 06:01, Minh Nguyen 
> <minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us 
> <mailto:minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us>> wrote:
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>     A practical benefit of tagging these office types distinctly is that we
>     can more easily track them as they pop in and out of existence ...
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>     * Is it a legislator's campaign office that's definitely gone because
>     they won reelection last fall?
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>     The campaign offices would deserve particular scrutiny from
>     StreetComplete because they're temporary, seasonal. 
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> & being "temporary" facilities, should campaign offices even be in OSM?

It's a good question without a single answer. A political campaign in 
the U.S. can last anywhere from a few months to almost two years, or 
four years in extreme cases. If the local community (or the campaign 
itself) is active and disciplined enough to keep these kinds of POIs 
up-to-date, I don't see a major problem with them being mapped. But 
mappers should be careful about mapping them from potentially outdated 
street-level imagery.

Judging from a nationwide sweep of office=political_party today, the 
number of stale campaign offices pales in comparison to the number of 
Halloween costume popup stores that have survived long past their 
expiration dates. [1] At least it'll be a little easier to keep tabs on 
office=political_campaign now.

[1] https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6746286511

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us