[Tagging] Tag government equals emergency defintion
Warin
61sundowner at gmail.com
Sat May 20 08:11:12 UTC 2023
On 19/5/23 21:20, Marc_marc wrote:
> Le 17.05.23 à 09:20, Warin a écrit :
>>
>> On 16/5/23 19:08, Marc_marc wrote:
>>> - some centres are not governmental (e.g. in Switzerland, mountain
>>> rescue is assigned to private companies such as Air Glacier)
>> office=association ?
>
> it's a pretty poor content tag, it doesn't say anything more
> than office=yes operator:type=ngo
> especially it doesn't say what the activity of this place is,
> while all the other values (except =yes =compagny) describe the activity
>
> I only use this tag temporarily when the activity of an association
> is not known to me or when I don't know the tag by memory in case of
> contribution by mobile application, which sometimes limits the
> accessibility to wiki or less common values)
>
>
>
office=government/ngo/association etc don't say what the activity is ..
just the operator class. These values are 'in use' ... go ahead with a
proposal to remove them. I'd vote for it.
Note 'associations' are not 'ngos' .. according to the OSM wiki IIRC.
Me? I have not checked nor am I that interested.
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