2017-02-07 17:19 GMT+01:00 Ilya Zverev <i...@zverev.info>: > * office=lawyer + lawyer=notary: introduced in wiki in 2010, number of > uses gradually rises to ~1000. > * office=notary: introduced by accident in 2014, was scarcely used until > it has found its way into JOSM presets in late 2015. After that it has > risen to ~900 uses. > > See this graph for reference: http://shtosm.ru/pictures/ > taghistory-notary.png > > I submitted an issue to the JOSM tracker to revert to the established > tags: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/14221 > > But surprisingly, it was met with negative responses. Code maintainers > started to defend the tag, stating that since the usage of "office=notary" > is high (!), it has been accepted by the community. But I'd argue that > nobody has accepted (or even known about) it, and the number of uses is > high because it is in the presets. > > Also there was an argument that a notary is not always a lawyer. While it > might be true for some countries, that doesn't concern the issue in my > opinion: >
to me office=notary seems ok as a tag, I'd prefer it over the office=lawyer + subtag tagging, they are sufficiently distinct, and I see no point in implying they are a subclass of lawyers which they might be or not. Office is a tag that is already finegrained (i.e. "notary" is not overly specific within this category), while putting the notary information into a rare subtag is a bit like "hiding" it. Looking at your picture: http://shtosm.ru/pictures/taghistory-notary.png it is clear that use of office=lawyer is growing much faster than the subtag approach. Cheers, Martin
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