Think about the tags I have mentioned before, which use "shop" for services
offered and which don't sell goods. From my point of view, the introduction of the office
key hasn't changed anything here, office=hairdresser doesn't make sense for a place where
you get your hair cut, offering services is clearly still a part of the key shop, nothing
you will carry in a bag or truck though
Except that several values have moved away from shop like shop=tailer =>
craft=tailor. I mean we have have more than 1000 tags with shop=craft
Go on page 9,10,... http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/shop#values
and you will find many values, which are not shops and have better
established tagging alternatives.
And I agree office hairdresser makes no sense, but what about
service=hairdresser? What about leisure= ? Especially looking at
shop=beauty or shop=massage.
the problem I see is not in the shop definition but within the office tag. The definition
goes like that: "A place predominantly selling services."
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:office
But this is only a subset of offices and is contradicted by the values on the
same page (eg ngo, association, newspaper, political_party, foundation,
religion, water_utility, ...)
An office is not always (or even rarely) mainly about selling, it can have
different purposes like administrating a business or other organization or
project.
An office is typically about people working with paper, computers , other
people and the telephone ;-), it is a workspace
The question is which key would have been better than office?
Also just looking at the German term for travel agent for exaple it's
Reisebüro so it has office in the name.
Also just looking for real estate office got me this
http://www.remax.com/officeagentsearch/ and a google image search shows
stuff like this:
http://media.point2.com/p2a/htmltext/bb20/7c32/24d3/42da289efc38b31dba4b/original.jpg
I don't think that's exactly what you meant with workplace, right? And
they are bascially selling you the service of acting as an intermediary.
I agree that office values are not perfect, but I feel like for many
it's just the best key OSM offers right now... I mean what are the
alternatives for the ones you listed?
(eg ngo, association, newspaper, political_party, foundation, religion,
water_utility, ...)
shop? amenity? craft?
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