On 2018-11-01 20:12, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 11:14 AM Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net
<mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote:
* shift to office=diplomatic and use the existing diplomatic=*
additional (secondary) tag to specify whether embassy, consulate,
or other, then use embassy, consulate and other as additional
(tertiary) tags to specify further the type of diplomatic or
non-diplomatic mission as needed.
This is my preferred option for the following reasons:
1. It reuses the existing office=* primary key, which is already in
use (for example, by the main OSM tile layer), as opposed to
introducing diplomatic=* as a primary key. Furthermore, I am in favor
of not having too many top-level primary keys unless they make a lot
of sense (like healthcare=* which is a really broad category, so it
makes sense to break this off as a primary key).
2. It does not clutter the overused amenity=* key and allows renderers
and users to treat diplomatic and quasi-diplomatic objects in the same
way and in a simpler way as opposed to tagging amenity=[embassy,
consulate, <some yet unspecified value>].
3. The three values for the secondary tag diplomatic=[embassy,
consulate, other] plus adding further details to [embassy, consulate,
other]=* makes it easy for mappers to add the level of detail they are
comfortable with. If a mapper is unsure what the object is, they can
just tag it as office=diplomatic. Then other slightly more
knowledgeable mappers can specify diplomatic=*, which seems enough for
most casual map users. Then other really knowledgeable mappers can
further add [embassy, consulate, other]=* for even more detail and
more specialized mapping applications.
+1
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