On 25/11/18 09:42, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
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On 24. Nov 2018, at 16:20, Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net
<mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote:
I don't think OSM should be in the business of writing its own
dictionary and defining terms independently of the rest of society.
That's a slippery slope.
it is not exactly the same as a dictionary, but similar, in osm there
are key value combinations, in language there is context, or sometimes
also ambiguity.
If a bank is a bank, it's a bank. If it is part of the banking
system and is regulated as a bank, it's a bank. If we want to
differentiate retail banks offering services to consumers from other
types of banks with an additional tag, that's great--but that doesn't
mean banks that offer different types of services are not banks
because the OSM wiki says so
The tag amenity=bank is not for all banks, it is only for the subset
of retail banks. If the tag doesn’t apply it does not mean that the
object is not a bank. We are not making up a tagging system for banks
(at least not yet ;-)), there is already one, and in this (simple)
system the amenity=bank tag is only for banks offering retail
services. You could see it as an additional tag to another (currently
implicit) tag for all kind of banks.
Maybe the key 'amenity' is the thing that is missing in the
understanding of amenity=bank ... the key 'amenity' says it is a useful
and important facility for visitors and residents i.e. common people.
The context of the two means central banks do not fit.
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