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

[Philip Barnes]

On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 11:58 +0000, Paul Oldham wrote:
> On 20/02/17 11:50, SK53 wrote:
> 
> > A couple of other points:
> > 
> >   * I think office=lawyer is more widely used than UK specific
> > terms
> >     like solicitor.
> 
> Funnily enough I was just reading the wiki page on that very thing.
> So I 
> should have
> 
>     office=lawyer
>     lawyer=solicitor
> 
> As per https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:office%3Dlawyer
> 
> >   * 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.
> 
> That does seem like a tempting solution. Apart from anything else it 
> gives the renderers a better chance of doing something plausible. So
> I 
> end up with:
> 
>     office=lawyer
>     lawyer=solicitor
>     shop=estate_agent
> 
Its certainly not an unusual situation in small towns in England and
Wales either.

Phil