Short introduction: Let’s take the tagging scheme „fuel“ for example:
amenity=fuel fuel:diesel=<yes/no> fuel:discount=<discount programme> … This is logical and consistent: amenity=xy and then a namespace xy:<subkey>=<Tag> --- Now to my topic: diplomatic institution – like an embassy, a consulate, ambassador’s residence, honorary consulate, consulate general, delegation, high commission, permanent mission, (permanent) representation etc. We have amenity=embassy since long time. Some of these are tagged on top with the (relatively new) key „diplomatic“ too – a very useful key. --- So I have two suggestions: *FIRST* Change amenity=embassy to amenity=diplomatic (this is more consistent and logical, analog to amenity=fuel etc.) or <whatever>=diplomatic. But please not the too specific „amenity=embassy“ – how could I explain a new mapper to tag a non-embassy (like a consulate) as „amenity=embassy“. for this, see also proposed features: - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Embassy (and „talk“ page there) --- Besides the tagging of the type of diplomatic institution it is super useful to tag a machine-readable country code (at least for the sending country). This is done so far via country=<country code>. This is not the best solution because there are very often misunderstandings – which country? The sending country or the destination (hosting) country? Sometimes target=<country code> is used for the destination (hosting / „targeted“) country. My *SECOND* suggestion: diplomatic:sending=ES <--- machine-readable ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code diplomatic:destination=FR <--- -- " -- It could be also diplomatic:destination_country or diplomatic:target or something like this. The destination country is not always identical with addr:country – see for example the embassy of Ethiopia in Berlin (destination countries: Germany, Poland, Slovak Republic and Czech Republic), see http://aethiopien-botschaft.de/ for this, see also my osm blog (about tagging country codes on embassies etc.): - state 2009: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Serpens/diary/5734 and http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Serpens/diary/9082 - state 2015: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Serpens/diary/28350 --- Because English is not my first language: Dear native speakers, please check if this is correct (sending country / destination country?). Taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=embassy http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/diplomatic http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/country http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/target Best serpens --- tl;dr (sorry for the long post!): Example (Spanish consulate in France – CURRENT STATE): amenity=embassy <--- „oh, look, it’s an embassy!“ diplomatic=consulate <--- contradiction: „uhm, wait, no. it’s a consulate.“ country=ES <--- often misunderstood as „addr:country“ name=Spanish consulate addr:country=FR … Example (Spanish consulate in France – MY PROPOSAL): amenity=diplomatic <--- it’s a diplomatic institution diplomatic:type=consulate <--- more specififc: it’s a consulate diplomatic:sending=ES <--- machine-readable ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code diplomatic:destination=FR <--- -- " -- name=Spanish consulate addr:country=FR … _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
