[Talk-GB] Fwd: [Talk-scotland] Estate Agent Solicitors

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Hi Paul,

The classic case of needing to use semicolons is Timpsons:
shop=shoe_repair;key_cutting. In this case the data consumer may need to
recognise the pattern (not necessarily parse the semi-colon). On a similar
basis I'd suggest office=solictor;estate_agent should be fine: it's not
that different from office=solictor_estate_agent after all.

Data consumers dealing with Scottish data would need to be able to handle
this: it may be worth documenting on the wiki.

A couple of other points:

   - I think office=lawyer is more widely used than UK specific terms like
   solicitor.
   - You could also do shop=estate_agent;office=lawyer too. Certainly
   around Nottingham we use shop=estate_agent for walk-in high street agents,
   and office=estate_agent for mainly commercial agents who are usually not
   located in retail premises. Others regard anywhere that does not allow
   immediate purchase of a product as an office rather than a shop.

Some estate agents may also act as agents for financial services companies.
I'm not sure anyone has tried to map such things, but they may be relevant
in more rural places.


Jerry





On 20 February 2017 at 11:26, Paul Oldham <paul at the-hug.org> wrote:

> I asked this question over on talk-scotland at openstreetmap.org a couple of
> days ago but have had no answer so perhaps I could ask here?
>
> For those who don't know the issue in Scotland most (but not all) houses
> are sold by solicitors rather than estate agents, although we have those
> too.
>
> Paul
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [Talk-scotland] Estate Agent Solicitors
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2017 18:14:48 +0000
> From: Paul Oldham <paul at the-hug.org>
> Organisation: The Hug
> To: talk-scotland at openstreetmap.org
>
> Hi folks
>
> I suspect this may be a FAQ hereabout but it's not on the wiki and I did
> look very briefly towards the list archive but pipermail doesn't have built
> in search and my Google Fu wasn't strong enough to get anything out that
> way.
>
> Anyway I'd value some advice. I'm in the middle of getting our town's high
> street shops up to date as it's clearly a while since it was done and
> there's also lots of gaps.
>
> One thing that I'm puzzling over however is estate agent solicitors. Do I
> tag them as:
>
>    office=solicitor
>    office=estate_agent
>    office=solicitor;estate_agent
>
> I was tempted by the latter but the wiki page on semi-colons
>
>    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Semi-colon_value_separator
>
> seems not to like semi-colons much. You on this list must have come across
> this issue before many times. Was there a consensus? If there is I'll add
> it to the wiki.
> --
> Paul
>
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