[OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

[David Paleino]

John Smith wrote:

> 2010/1/6 Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com>:
>> Yet the same English word "notary".
>
> It gets even more fun in Australia, we have JPs (Justice of the Peace)
> to stamp/witness documents being signed, but in the US a JP is
> something like a judge.

In Italy JPs are "something like a judge", and notary has the same
meaning as the one Serge pointed out for France (i.e. part of the
Judiciary, not an attorney, but needed for legally binding things)

<joke>
amenity=notary
notary=american-like|european-like
</joke>

:)

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