[OSM-talk] Create two new categories for lawyers, architects, plumbers, etc

Pieren pieren3 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 5 16:33:29 GMT 2009


I just discover the entry "architect_office" in the category "amenity"
on Map Features [1]. Then I also found a proposal for amenity=lawyer
[2]. Is "amenity" the righ place/category for such things ?

I'm not a native english speakier but is "amenity" the right category
for lawyers, architects, designers, etc, next after museums,
fountains, stripclubs or borthels ? Some stats about the "office" tag
can be found here : [5].
Could we create a new key/category like "office" and move
architect_office to "office=architect" and "office=lawyer" ?

Another question is about artisans like plumbers, carpenters, joiners,
cabinetmakers, blacksmith, etc. All these workers that have no shops
(or a facade) but more their art/craft/labor on sites.
I would like to create a new category for these jobs but I don't know
which one exactly : "craft" ([3]) ? "craftsman" ? "artisan" ([4]) ?
something else ?

Pieren

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Lawyer
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan
[5] http://osmdoc.com/en/tag/office/#values




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