Hi, On 01/27/16 14:26, Matthijs Melissen wrote: > This didn't get any responses yet on the list. II would be interested > to hear what other mappers think of this proposal!
1. In many western civilizations you have a division of state powers in an executive, a legislature, and a judiciary. I believe that you'd normally only call the executive "government", although colloquially people will say "the government has passed a law" or "the government has put him in prison" too. For a government=* tag to succeed, it would have to be clearly delineated for what kinds of things it is to be used. The proposed definition is already murky; for example, a job centre or even a museum cashier could be "fully paid for by the government and completely controlled by them". This is not any better defined than amenity=public_building. 2. At the same time, governments all over the world are vastly different; in some places, for example, the water works will be closely guarded government institutions, and in others, private enterprises in competition to each other. Same with railways and many other utilities which, at least in socialist countries, tend to be practically inseparable from government (except that it will be bloody difficult to assign an admin_level to them). I think that it is very likely that you'll end up with a vastly varying use of this tag across the world, with many values limited in use to a single country plus a few uses sprinkled across the world because nobody understood that a certain type of office really only exists in three Philippine provinces. 3. Personally I feel that in addition to the above, there's a major difference between places where the government provides a service to the citizen - where you go to do something or have something done - and other places where the government essentially revolves in its own sauce and you're not even let in to watch. The former is an useful "this is where you go if you need to <X>" information, the latter is essentially just for fancy lettering on the map because you won't usually go there for anything. Much like the difference between a Domino's pizza place and the Domino's central franchise building. I think that it might make sense to find different tags for the government "outlets" or "serivce points" as opposed to government office buildings. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
