On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 15:40, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I agree painter is ambiguous, but office is about an office, while the > place of a decorator would probably not just be an office but contain all > the tools and paint and stuff they need to do their work. > Yes, but under the current system (which is probably too deeply embedded to fix) an office can be one of two basic types: 1) A place for doing paperwork or other administrative tasks. 2) A place selling services to the public. Essentially a shop, but for non-physical items. There are overlaps. A call centre fits both of the above. A decorator's "office" might well contain tools and consumables. But the public would not, in general, be expected to visit. You don't dismantle your house and take the pieces to a decorator's office to be painted, then take them back and reassemble them. The actual work of the decorator takes place elsewhere. A sculptor, in general, carves stone and wood in a place tagged craft=sculptor. A sculptor might also do work at other locations, but craft=sculptor is a studio/workshop and not, generally, for public access. A craft=painter (current meaning) is where paperwork is done and perhaps where equipment is stored, but it is not where the actual craft of decorating takes place. With hindsight we'd have designed a more consistent tagging scheme. We have to do the best we can with what we have. We might be able to deprecate craft=painter, though, since it's wrong on two counts: it's not a place where the craft activity takes place and it would be better as "decorator" than the ambiguous "painter." -- Paul
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