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

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Steve Bennett <stevagewp <at> gmail.com> writes:

> What about "architect=yes", like you get for bridge, area, building... Seems
to work well. And then, if and when you have more information to add (eg,
lawyer=immigration), you have somewhere to add it.Steve 

For people using OSM data through some "normal" GIS tools, for example by
importing data first to PostGIS database with osm2pgsql, it is much more
painfull if each profession will have an own tag like "architect=yes",
"lawyer=yes" etc. If "amenity" category is not enough I would like better to
have a limited number of other category tags and values which suit well for
filtering, like "something=architect", "something=lawyer" etc.  Even now a limit
between amenity and shop is a bit unclear, for example in amenity=veterinary and
shop=hairdresser.

-Jukka Rahkonen-