Am Di., 30. Okt. 2018 um 18:48 Uhr schrieb Allan Mustard <al...@mustard.net >:
> Not really dropping. More like reorganizing. As someone who has spent > hours puzzling over Maperitive's rendering rules, deciding how to build > them so that particular categories of POIs will be rendered in specific > ways, I am quite sensitive to the need for consistency and a finite number > of possible permutations while also accommodating the need to cover every > eventuality. Hierarchies are designed for exactly that purpose. After > much back and forth at this point I am proposing a hierarchy that I believe > meets all needs without being overly complex, and which will accommodate > the novice mapper (diplomatic=embassy, period) and the advanced mapper > (diplomatic=embassy, embassy=interests_section, etc.). > > diplomatic=* would become a top-level, primary tag. It would have three > categories: embassy, consulate, other. > to make this work, projects like osm carto would either have to add a column for this key to their dbs or mappers would have to add something like amenity=diplomatic on top of all tags (and likely it will lead to the second way of doing it). It would make sense, if amenity=diplomatic was sufficient information for a significant number of people, it doesn't make sense if amenity=diplomatic does not convey the required information. > If the consensus is that "other" sucks as an option I'm certainly open to > other suggestions, but we need something for diplomatic missions headed by > neither an ambassador/charge d'affaires (i.e., subject to the VCDR) nor a > consul (i.e., subject to the VCCR). > diplomatic=minor_mission? If there's neither a consul nor an ambassador, it must be somehow minor ;-) > Then the real fun begins. As I have read through the various comments and > suggestions, it has occurred to me that the following hierarchy of tags > would potentially fill the bill: > > The three values/categories (embassy, consulate, other) would have > specific subcategories. If you wanted to do a key search in overpass > turbo, it would still be possible. The subcategories would be > > * embassy=[embassy/yes, nunciature, high_commission, interests_section, > mission, delegation, branch_embassy] > > * consulate=[consulate/yes, consulate_general, consular_agency, > consular_office, honorary_consul] > > * other=[liaison_office, representative_office, subnational] > if these are all exclusive, it could also be: amenity=[embassy, consulate, minor_mission] diplomatic=[(embassy/yes), nunciature, high_commission, interests_section, mission, delegation, branch_embassy, (consulate/yes), consulate_general, consular_agency, consular_office, honorary_consul, liaison_office, representative_office, subnational] we would save on keys and the main level (most mappers interested) would be in the amenity space and have just 3 different, simple tags with reasonable level of detail. or amenity=[embassy, consulate, minor_mission] embassy=[embassy/yes, nunciature, high_commission, interests_section, mission, delegation, branch_embassy] consulate=[consulate/yes, consulate_general, consular_agency, consular_office, honorary_consul] minor_mission =[liaison_office, representative_office, subnational] diplomatic=[trade_office, assistance_office, cultural_center, user_defined] (integrating your diplomatic:type) Cheers, Martin
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