OK, but are there any countries in the world where you can would
normally buy health insurance in the same place as car or home or life
insurance?
If not, then this is a theoretical problem only.
"if you want to ask "how many insurance offices are there and what
is the breakdown by type", it's much more natural to search one key..."
It's all one key either way ("office"), and database users already are
very accustomed to searching for more than one tag to find a set of
similar things. It only takes a few more seconds to add another tag to
an Overpass-API query.
But it takes more time for each mapper to add 2 tags instead of one.
Mapper time is the most precious resource in OpenStreetMap: we don't
have enough mappers, and most are working for free, for fun.
Let's make things as easy as possible for mappers: one tag for one main feature.
-- Joseph Eisenberg
On 4/15/20, António Madeira <antoniomade...@gmx.com> wrote:
> I agree that a logical breakdown of the insurance field should be
> preferred rather than creating several type of insurance offices.
> I would rather use office=insurance + insurance="type" than
> office=health_insurance;car_insurance;house_insurance;etc.
>
>
> Às 21:16 de 14/04/2020, Greg Troxel escreveu:
>> Agustin Rissoli <aguztin...@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> In Argentina we want to correctly tagging offices of companies dedicated
>>> to
>>> what we call prepaid medicine, by paying a monthly fee you access a
>>> series
>>> of medical benefits.
>>> We are hesitating between these tags:
>>>
>>> office=health_insurance
>>> It has no wiki, it has 185 uses, the majority in Belgium since it was
>>> created in 2013, they even have a preset in JOSM.
>>>
>>> office=insurance + insurance=health
>>> It has a wiki, curiously created by a Belgian user in 2018, it has 66
>>> uses.
>>> It is the only documented insurance=* key.
>> While I see Joseph's point about what is normal, I think that's an
>> artifact of some, perhaps many societies.
>>
>> I think if this is an office selling insurance of any kind, it should
>> have office=insurance and then a subtag. I don't think it helps map
>> data users to make a second top-level tag. Basically I think tags
>> should follow semantics as much as possible, when that's reasonable.
>>
>> For what it's worth, around me, also in the US, my impression is that
>> most "insurance offices" are really "property and casualty insurance
>> offices". This is for your car, and your house. But typically not life
>> insurance so much, and not health. (I am not sure about professional
>> liability and business interruption insurance.)
>>
>> As always, we should step back and ask "when we add these tags, who will
>> use them, and why". I see two points:
>>
>> some kind of overall statistics of types of businesses
>>
>> wanting to find a particular thing
>>
>> In the case of office=insurance insurance=health, if that's what you
>> want, you can find it by searching for that just as well as searching
>> for office=health_insurance.
>>
>> But if you want to ask "how many insurance offices are there and what
>> is the breakdown by type", it's much more natural to search one key and
>> switch on subtag, then to consult some information -- which we don't
>> really have a way to maintain -- that says office=insurance,
>> office=health_insurance and office=foo_insurance are all types of
>> insurance offices.
>>
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