On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 11:48 +0200, Andreas Goss wrote: > There are like 20x amenity=jobcentre and 65x amenity=job_centre. > Meanwhile office=employment_agency is used 1200x > > On > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Jobcentre_%28plus%29 you > find: > "Currently unclear if that tag encompass government run job centres." > > Checking in Germany the huge majority tagged office= are definitely > government run. So should we merge the amenity= tags with office? I > currently see no reason to keep them as the information seems to be the > same. > A job Centre is different to an employment agency. A job Centre is a place staffed by civil servants you go to claim unemployment benefit, as well as find work. Other social security issues, such as pensions are often dealt with at these places.
It would be very very wrong to try to merge Job Centre with employment agency. Phil (trigpoint) _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
