@Matthijs, I like what you've done so far. I think using office=government and then following that additional tags to more closely define what sort of administration is done by that office is a good way to proceed.
I would suggest a minor change to the definition you have above by including a reference to facilities. These might include water and irrigation projects, government controlled utilities and the like. The tag office=government is used to tag offices of a (supra)national, regional or local government agency or department. In these offices, staff work directly for government and carry out tasks to administer facilities, operate registries and licensing bureaus, regulate lands and/or people, etc." Something like that maybe? <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> This email has been sent from a virus-free computer protected by Avast. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:31 AM, Matthijs Melissen <i...@matthijsmelissen.nl> wrote: > On 27 January 2016 at 15:03, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > 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. > > Good point, I added an additional tag to clarify that all branches are > included. > > > 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. > > True, coming up with a precise definition is quite hard though. I > think I would like to include places like job centres, but exclude > museum cashiers or private bus/road work companies. Would something > like this work? > > "The tag office=government is used to tag offices of a > (supra)national, regional or local government agency or department. In > these offices, staff directly paid for by the government carry out > administrative jobs to govern the area and/or people." > > Could somebody (perhaps a native speaker) improve on this definition? > > -- Matthijs > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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