Ahh, but an office does so much more than paperwork. An office houses officials (of the government, of NGOs, of companies and corporations, of a motion picture studio, a military commander, a food processor, the list goes on and on). It is not all paperwork. Some of it is actually fun.
>From where I sit (literally!), as a bureaucrat who spends many hours most days in an office, that tag fits diplomatic functions more closely than any other tag I've encountered so far, even if some of our best work is done outside and in some cases very far from the office, as my Mapillary imagery attests. On 10/27/2018 10:11 PM, Paul Allen wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 5:38 PM Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net > <mailto:al...@mustard.net>> wrote: > > Given the effort required to create a new main key, and the split > in opinions whether diplomatic=* should be a new main key, I am > leaning toward office=diplomatic, diplomatic=[embassy, consulate, > other] as a happy medium. > > > From my happy little Dunning-Krugeresque perspective (I don't know > much about it, so it must be > simple) of the technical innards, I'm not sure that there's any more > effort required to have diplomatic > as a new main key. I suspect that editors may find it slightly > simpler to have diplomatic as a main key > than a subordinate one. As far as the carto side goes, I saw an old > youtube video on the subject which > seemed to imply that adding anything in any manner could have drastic > effects on rendering time, so I > don't know which approach would be better for that. > > The biggest problem with a new main key is political. Everyone has an > opinion... There are those > who want to merge everything into a very small number of categories > and those who do not. You > just produced very compelling arguments against amenity=diplomatic (an > embassy or consulate > does so much more). I think that applies, to a lesser extent, to > office=diplomatic. An embassy doesn't > really fit my mental category of "office" any more than a shop or > filling station or hospital does (even > though they all process paperwork, it's not their main purpose however > much of their time it takes > up). That said, I wouldn't vote against office=diplomatic, I just > hope something better turns up before > the vote. > > -- > Paul
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