On 25/10/18 07:51, Kevin Kenny wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:19 PM Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net <mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote: Please do continue to comment and to offer suggestions, and to pose questions. This is pretty much based on gut feelings and may be partially or completely wrong... I don't think "amenity" is a suitable tag for a consulate. Amenities are parks, or toilets, or similar. "Should we go to the park or the consulate for a picnic today?" "I'm busting for a crap, where's the nearest consulate?" And I'm damned sure an embassy isn't an amenity (I'm not even sure, in these days of telecommunications, if it serves any purpose other than housing spies, but if heads of state do still use embassies for formal communication between governments they're definitely not amenities).I'm not going to worry too much about that particular tagging. 'amenity=*' is so overloaded in OSM (amenity=prison? Really?) that it can't possibly get any worse.
:-)
Since I already have to account for a great many different sorts of cases when processing 'amenity=*' for rendering or analysis, one more would be lost in the noise. I tend to think of OSM's 'amenity' as having a meaning not too far removed from 'thing'.
I think of it as the miscellaneous folder of OSM, if it cannot fit anywhere else it goes in here. The 'I give up' option.
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